Ephesians 5:22

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:22 in Other Translations

KJV
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
ESV
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
NLT
22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
MSG
22 Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ.
CSB
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord,

Ephesians 5:22 In-Context

20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
23 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.
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Cross References 2

  • 1. Genesis 3:16; 1 Corinthians 14:34; Colossians 3:18; 1 Timothy 2:12; Titus 2:5; 1Pe 3:1,5,6
  • 2. Ephesians 6:5
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