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Wives and Husbands

Ephesians 5:22

In 9 translations

BSB
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
KJV
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
WEB
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
ASV
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
LSV
The wives: [subject yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the LORD,
YLT
The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,
DBY
Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
DRC
Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:
GNV
Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as vnto the Lord.

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  • Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ὑποτάσσεσθε (“do submit yourselves”); Tyndale House, Tregelles read ὑποτασσέσθωσαν (“should be in submission”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: ἀνδράσιν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἀνδράσιν; Tregelles add ὑποτασσέσθωσαν; Robinson–Pierpont add ὑποτάσσεσθε.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
Αἱ γυναῖκες τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν ὡς τῷ κυρίῳ,
RP2018
Αἱ γυναῖκες, τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν ὑποτάσσεσθε, ὡς τῷ κυρίῳ.
TR-Boyd
Αἱ γυναῖκες, τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν ὑποτάσσεσθε, ὡς τῷ Κυρίῳ.
SCR1894
αι γυναικες τοις ιδιοις ανδρασιν υποτασσεσθε ως τω κυριω

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  • Colossians 3:18–4:1Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord. Fathers, do not provoke…
  • 1 Peter 3:1–6Wives, 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 when they see your pure and reverent…
  • 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.
  • 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 1:20The 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.”
  • Ephesians 5:22–6:9Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 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. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should…
  • 1 Timothy 2:11–12A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; she is to remain quiet.
  • Esther 1:16–18And 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. For the conduct of the queen will…
  • 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.

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