Ephesians 5:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

For the husband is the wiues head, euen as Christ is the head of the Church, and the same is the sauiour of his body.

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  • 1 Cor 11:3-9 : 3 But I wil that ye know, that Christ is the head of euery man: and the man is the womans head: and God is Christs head. 4 Euery man praying or prophecying hauing any thing on his head, dishonoureth his head. 5 But euery woman that prayeth or prophecieth bare headed, dishonoureth her head: for it is euen one very thing, as though she were shauen. 6 Therefore if the woman be not couered, let her also be shorne: and if it be shame for a woman to be shorne or shauen, let her be couered. 7 For a man ought not to couer his head: for as much as he is the image & 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 the man was not created for the womans sake: but the woman for the mans sake. 10 Therefore ought the woman to haue power on her head, because of the Angels.
  • Col 1:18 : 18 And hee is the head of the body of the Church: he is the beginning, and the first begotten of the dead, that in all thinges hee might haue the preeminence.
  • Eph 1:22-23 : 22 And hath made all things subiect vnder his feete, and hath giuen him ouer all things to be the head to the Church, 23 Which is his body, euen the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all things.
  • Eph 4:15 : 15 But let vs folowe the truth in loue, and in all things, grow vp into him, which is the head, that is, Christ.
  • Eph 5:25-26 : 25 Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ loued the Church, & gaue himselfe for it, 26 That hee might sanctifie it, and clense it by the washing of water through the worde,
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthie to take the Booke, and to open the seales thereof, because thou wast killed, and hast redeemed vs to God by thy blood out of euery kinred, and tongue, and people, and nation,

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  • Eph 5:21-22
    2 verses
    85%

    21Submitting your selues one to another in the feare of God.

    22Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as vnto the Lord.

  • Eph 5:24-33
    10 verses
    85%

    24Therfore as the Church is in subiection to Christ, euen so let the wiues be to their husbads in euery thing.

    25Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ loued the Church, & gaue himselfe for it,

    26That hee might sanctifie it, and clense it by the washing of water through the worde,

    27That hee might make it vnto him selfe a glorious Church, not hauing spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it shoulde bee holy and without blame.

    28So ought men to loue their wiues, as their owne bodies: he that loueth his wife, loueth him selfe.

    29For no man euer yet hated his owne flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, euen as the Lord doeth the Church.

    30For we are members of his bodie, of his flesh, and of his bones.

    31For this cause shal a man leaue father and mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they twaine shalbe one flesh.

    32This is a great secrete, but I speake concerning Christ, and concerning the Church.

    33Therefore euery one of you, doe ye so: let euery one loue his wife, euen as himselfe, and let the wife see that shee feare her husband.

  • 1 Cor 11:3-5
    3 verses
    81%

    3But I wil that ye know, that Christ is the head of euery man: and the man is the womans head: and God is Christs head.

    4Euery man praying or prophecying hauing any thing on his head, dishonoureth his head.

    5But euery woman that prayeth or prophecieth bare headed, dishonoureth her head: for it is euen one very thing, as though she were shauen.

  • Col 3:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

    18Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.

    19Husbands, loue your wiues, and be not bitter vnto them.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.

    3Let the husbande giue vnto the wife due beneuolence, and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.

    4The wife hath not the power of her owne bodie, but ye husband: & likewise also the husband hath not ye power of his own body, but the wife.

  • Eph 1:22-23
    2 verses
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    22And hath made all things subiect vnder his feete, and hath giuen him ouer all things to be the head to the Church,

    23Which is his body, euen the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all things.

  • 1 Pet 3:5-7
    3 verses
    73%

    5For euen after this maner in time past did the holy women, which trusted in God, tire them selues, and were subiect to their husbands.

    6As Sara obeyed Abraham, and called him Sir: whose daughters ye are, whiles yee doe well, not being afraide of any terrour.

    7Likewise ye husbands, dwel with them as men of knowledge, giuing honour vnto the woman, as vnto the weaker vessell, euen as they which are heires together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not interrupted.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
    72%

    16For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt saue thine husband? Or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt saue thy wife?

  • 1 Cor 11:7-12
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    7For a man ought not to couer his head: for as much as he is the image & 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 the man was not created for the womans sake: but the woman for the mans sake.

    10Therefore ought the woman to haue power on her head, because of the Angels.

    11Neuertheles, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man 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
    71%

    1Likewise let the wiues bee subiect to their husbandes, that euen they which obey not the worde, may without the worde be wonne by the conuersation of the wiues,

  • Col 1:18
    70%

    18And hee is the head of the body of the Church: he is the beginning, and the first begotten of the dead, that in all thinges hee might haue the preeminence.

  • 1 Tim 3:5
    69%

    5For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?

  • Titus 2:5
    69%

    5That they be temperate, chaste, keeping at home, good & subiect vnto their husbands, that the word of God be not euill spoken of.

  • Gen 2:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23Then the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.

    24Therefore shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

  • Matt 19:5
    68%

    5And sayd, For this cause, shal a man leaue father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife, and they which were two shalbe one flesh.

  • Eph 4:15
    68%

    15But let vs folowe the truth in loue, and in all things, grow vp into him, which is the head, that is, Christ.

  • 1 Cor 7:33
    67%

    33But hee that is maried, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:14
    67%

    14For the vnbeleeuing husband is sanctified to the wife, and the vnbeleeuing wife is sanctified to the husbande, els were your children vncleane: but nowe are they holie.

  • 1 Cor 14:34
    67%

    34Let your women keepe silence in the Churches: for it is not permitted vnto them to speake: but they ought to be subiect, as also the Lawe sayth.

  • Mark 10:7
    67%

    7For this cause shall man leaue his father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:39
    66%

    39The wife is bounde by the Lawe, as long as her husband liueth: but if her husband bee dead, shee is at libertie to marie with whome she will, onely in the Lord.

  • Prov 31:23
    66%

    23Her husband is knowen in the gates, when he sitteth with the Elders of the land.

  • 1 Cor 7:10
    66%

    10And vnto ye maried I comand, not I, but ye Lord, Let not ye wife depart from her husband.

  • Rom 7:2
    66%

    2For the woman which is in subiection to a man, is bound by the Lawe to the man, while he liueth: but if the man bee dead, shee is deliuered from the lawe of the man.

  • Isa 54:5
    66%

    5For hee that made thee, is thine husband (whose Name is the Lorde of hostes) and thy redeemer the Holy one of Israel, shall be called the God of the whole world.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
    66%

    16Doe ye not knowe, that he which coupleth himselfe with an harlot, is one body? for two, sayeth he, shalbe one flesh.