Ephesians 5:23 - The Scriptures 1998

²³ Because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Messiah is head of the assembly, and He is Saviour of the body.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ For the husband is head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the church, Himself the Savior of [His] body.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

Common English Bible

²³ A husband is the head of his wife like Christ is head of the church, that is, the savior of the body.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church. He is the Savior of his body.

Ephesians 5:23 Cross References

Acts 20:28

“Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Set-apart Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of Elohim which He has purchased with His own blood.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods – but Elohim shall destroy both it and them. And the body is not for whoring but for the Master, and the Master for the body.

Ephesians 4:15

but, maintaining the truth in love, we grow up in all respects into Him who is the head, Messiah,

Ephesians 5:24

But as the assembly is subject to Messiah, so also let the wives be to their own husbands in every respect.

Colossians 1:18

And He is the Head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that He might become the One who is first in all.

1 Thessalonians 1:10

and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He raised from the dead, יהושע, who is delivering us from the wrath to come.

Revelation 19:7

“Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him praise, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife prepared herself.”

Revelation 5:9

And they sang a renewed song, saying, “You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals, because You were slain, and have redeemed us to Elohim by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,