Ephesians 5:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.”
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BSBPD
“Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Ephesians 5:22 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:16To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
- Esther 1:16And in the presence of the king and his princes, Memucan replied, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the princes and the peoples in all the provinces of King Xerxes.
- Esther 1:20The edict the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom—and so all women, from the least to the greatest, will honor their husbands.”
- 1 Corinthians 14:34Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
- Colossians 3:18Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
- 1 Timothy 2:11A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.
- Titus 2:5to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
- 1 Peter 3:1Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives
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