Ephesians 5:24

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.
  • Titus 2:9 : 9 [ Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own masters, [and] to be well-pleasing [to them] in all things; not gainsaying;
  • Exod 23:13 : 13 And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
  • Col 3:20 : 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
  • Col 3:22 : 22 Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord: [
  • Titus 2:7 : 7 in all things showing thyself an ensample of good works; in thy doctrine [showing] uncorruptness, gravity,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eph 5:21-23
    3 verses
    89%

    21subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

    23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body.

  • Eph 5:25-29
    5 verses
    84%

    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;

  • Col 3:18-19
    2 verses
    83%

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

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

  • 1 Pet 3:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    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;

    2beholding your chaste behavior [coupled] with fear.

  • 1 Pet 3:5-7
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Eph 5:31-33
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Titus 2:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    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:

  • 1 Cor 11:3
    76%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 14:34-35
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    76%

    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.

    35And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-4
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

  • 1 Tim 2:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

    12But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

  • Eph 1:22
    73%

    22and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,

  • Eph 6:5
    71%

    5Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

  • 1 Tim 3:11-12
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    71%

    11Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

    12Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling [their] children and their own houses well.

  • 1 Cor 11:10-12
    3 verses
    71%

    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 Cor 15:28
    71%

    28And when all things have been subjected unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subjected to him that did subject all things unto him, that God may be all in all.

  • Gen 2:24
    69%

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

  • 1 Cor 7:16
    69%

    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 7:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

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

    11(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

  • 1 Tim 3:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4one that ruleth well his own house, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity;

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

  • 1 Tim 5:14
    69%

    14I desire therefore that the younger [widows] marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

  • 1 Pet 2:13
    68%

    13Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

  • 1 Cor 7:39
    68%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:24
    68%

    24Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.

  • Col 3:22
    68%

    22Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord: [

  • 1 Cor 7:33-34
    2 verses
    67%

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

    34and is divided. [So] also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

  • Rom 7:2
    67%

    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.