Ephesians 5:22

World English Bible (2000)

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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  • Col 3:18-4:1 : 18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them. 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged. 22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. 23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality. 1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
  • Gen 3:16 : 16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
  • 1 Pet 3:1-6 : 1 In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; 2 seeing your pure behavior in fear. 3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; 4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious. 5 For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
  • Titus 2:5 : 5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.
  • Eph 5:22-6:9 : 22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. 24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, 27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. 29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly; 30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. 31 "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh." 32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. 33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband. 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise: 3 "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth." 4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. 5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ; 6 not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; 7 with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men; 8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free. 9 You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
  • Esth 1:20 : 20 When the king's decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small."
  • 1 Tim 2:11-12 : 11 Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. 12 But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.
  • 1 Cor 14:34 : 34 let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.
  • Esth 1:16-18 : 16 Memucan answered before the king and the princes, "Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus. 17 For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn't come.' 18 Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's deed will tell all the king's princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.

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    23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

    24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

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

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

    27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

    28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

    29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

  • Col 3:18-19
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    18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

    19 Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.

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

  • 1 Pet 3:1-2
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    1 In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

    2 seeing your pure behavior in fear.

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

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

    7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

  • Eph 5:31-33
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    31 "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."

    32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

    33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4 that 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 God's word may not be blasphemed.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-4
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    2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

    4 The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

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    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.

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

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    34 let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.

    35 If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.

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    11 Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

    12 But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

  • 1 Cor 11:10-12
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    10 For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.

    11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

    12 For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

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    22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

  • 1 Pet 5:5
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    5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

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    16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

  • Eph 1:22
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    22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

  • 1 Pet 2:13
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    13 Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

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    10 But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband

  • 1 Tim 3:11
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    11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

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    14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

  • Gen 2:24
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    24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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

  • Jas 4:7
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    7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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    2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

  • 1 Tim 3:4-5
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    4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

    5 (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

  • Rom 7:2
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    2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:39
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    39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.

  • Mark 10:7
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    7 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

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    5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.