Ephesians
King James Version (KJV)

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
King James Version (KJV)
Wiues, submit your selues vnto your own husbands, as vnto the Lord.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
Wives, {be subject} to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Wives, `be in subjection' unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.
- Basic English Bible
Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
- Darby Bible
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
- Webster's Bible
Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;
- Weymouth Bible
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
- World English Bible
Wymmen, be thei suget to her hosebondis,
- Wycliffe Bible
The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,
- Youngs Literal Bible
5:22 In the following directions concerning relative duties, the inferiors are all along placed before the superiors, because the general proposition is concerning submission; and inferiors ought to do their duty, whatever their superiors do. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands - Unless where God forbids. Otherwise, in all indifferent things, the will of the husband is a law to the wife. As unto the Lord - The obedience a wife pays to her husband is at the same time paid to Christ himself; he being head of the wife, as Christ is head of the church.
Eph 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands. Mutual duties are named. The husband should "love his wife as Christ loved the church" (Eph 5:23), and the wife should submit to this loving husband "as unto the Lord".
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