To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
Ephesians 5:22 - New Revised Standard Version Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Wives, be subject (be submissive and adapt yourselves) to your own husbands as [a service] to the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. Common English Bible For example, wives should submit to their husbands as if to the Lord. Catholic Public Domain Version Wives should be submissive to their husbands, as to the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord: |
To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, vast as it is, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike.”
he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, declaring that every man should be master in his own house.
women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as the law also says.
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ;
So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
to be self-controlled, chaste, good managers of the household, kind, being submissive to their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited.