Ephesians 5:23

American Standard Version (1901)

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body.

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  • 1 Cor 11:3-9 : 3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoreth his head. 5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven. 6 For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled. 7 For a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man: 9 for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man: 10 for this cause ought the woman to have [a sign of] authority on her head, because of the angels.
  • Col 1:18 : 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
  • Eph 1:22-23 : 22 and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
  • Eph 4:15 : 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ;
  • Eph 5:25-26 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou was slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood [men] of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eph 5:21-22
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    21subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

    22Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

  • Eph 5:24-33
    10 verses
    85%

    24But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.

    25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

    26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

    27that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

    28Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

    29for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

    30because we are members of his body.

    31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

    32This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

    33Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.

  • 1 Cor 11:3-5
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    3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

    4Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoreth his head.

    5But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

  • Col 3:18-19
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    76%

    18Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

    19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

    4The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

  • Eph 1:22-23
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    22and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,

    23which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

  • 1 Pet 3:5-7
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    5For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

    6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

    7Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

  • 1 Cor 11:7-12
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    7For a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

    8For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man:

    9for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man:

    10for this cause ought the woman to have [a sign of] authority on her head, because of the angels.

    11Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.

    12For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God.

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1In like manner, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

  • Col 1:18
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    18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

  • 1 Tim 3:5
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    5(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

  • Titus 2:5
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    5[ to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

  • Gen 2:23-24
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    23And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • Matt 19:5
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    5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

  • Eph 4:15
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    15but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ;

  • 1 Cor 7:33
    67%

    33but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

  • 1 Cor 7:14
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    14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

  • 1 Cor 14:34
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    34let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.

  • Mark 10:7
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    7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;

  • 1 Cor 7:39
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    39A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

  • Prov 31:23
    66%

    23Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land.

  • 1 Cor 7:10
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    10But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

  • Rom 7:2
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    2For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

  • Isa 54:5
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    5For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
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    16Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.