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Ephesians 5:22
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Ephesians 5:22
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Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
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Ephesians 5:22 in Other Translations
KJV
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Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
ESV
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Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
NLT
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For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
MSG
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Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ.
CSB
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Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord,
Ephesians 5:22 In-Context
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always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
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For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
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Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
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1.
Genesis 3:16
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1 Corinthians 14:34
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Colossians 3:18
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1 Timothy 2:12
;
Titus 2:5
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1Pe 3:1,5,6
2.
Ephesians 6:5
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