Ephesians 5:22 - The Scriptures 1998

²² Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Master.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Wives, be subject (be submissive and adapt yourselves) to your own husbands as [a service] to the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Common English Bible

²² For example, wives should submit to their husbands as if to the Lord.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² Wives should be submissive to their husbands, as to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:22 Cross References

Genesis 3:16

To the woman He said, “I greatly increase your sorrow and your conception – bring forth children in pain. And your desire is for your husband, and he does rule over you.”

Esther 1:20

“And the sovereign’s decree which he makes shall be proclaimed throughout all his rule, great as it is, and all the wives give esteem to their husbands, both great and small.”

Esther 1:22

So he sent letters to all the sovereign’s provinces, to each province in its own writing, and to every people in their own language, that each man should be master in his own house and speak in the language of his people.

1 Corinthians 14:34

Let your women be silent in the assemblies, for they are not allowed to speak, but let them subject themselves, as the Torah also says.

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Master.

Ephesians 6:5

Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Messiah;

Colossians 3:1

If, then, you were raised with Messiah, seek the matters which are above, where Messiah is, seated at the right hand of Elohim.

Colossians 3:18

Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as is proper in the Master.

Titus 2:5

to be sensible, blameless, workers at home, good, subject to their own husbands, in order that the word of Elohim is not evil spoken of.