Ephesians 5:22
Good News Translation
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord.

New Revised Standard Version
Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
A wife should put her husband first, as she does the Lord.

New American Bible
Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

submit.

Ephesians 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject to Christ: so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.

Genesis 3:16 To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

Esther 1:16-18,20 And Mamuchan answered, in the hearing of the king and the princes: Queen Vasthi hath not only injured the king, but also all the people and princes that are in all the provinces of king Assuerus. . . .

1 Corinthians 14:34 Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith.

Colossians 3:18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.

*etc:

1 Timothy 2:11,12 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. . . .

Titus 2:5 To be discreet, chaste, sober, having a care of the house, gentle, obedient to their husbands: that the word of God be not blasphemed.

1 Peter 3:1-6 In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives, . . .

as.

Ephesians 6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ.

Colossians 3:22,23 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh: not serving to the eye, as pleasing men: but in simplicity of heart, fearing God. . . .

Context
Wives and Husbands
21Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ. 22Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord: 23Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body.…
Cross References
Esther 1:20
And let this be published through all the provinces of thy empire, (which is very wide,) and let all wives, as well of the greater as of the lesser, give honour to their husbands.

Esther 1:22
And he sent letters to all the provinces of his kingdom, as every nation could hear and read, in divers languages and characters, that the husbands should be rulers and masters in their houses: and that this should be published to every people.

1 Corinthians 14:34
Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith.

Ephesians 6:5
Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ.

Colossians 3:1
Therefore if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.

Colossians 3:18
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.

Titus 2:5
To be discreet, chaste, sober, having a care of the house, gentle, obedient to their husbands: that the word of God be not blasphemed.

1 Peter 3:1
In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives,

Ephesians 5:21
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