Ephesians 5:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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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, dishonors his head. 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. 6 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered. 7 For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man. 8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man; 9 for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man. 10 For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.
  • Col 1:18 : 18 He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
  • Eph 1:22-23 : 22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills 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, Christ;
  • Eph 5:25-26 : 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,
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, And to open its seals: For you were killed, And bought us for God with your blood, Out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

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

    22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

  • Eph 5:24-33
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    24But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

    25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, 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 assembly to himself gloriously, 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 who loves his own wife loves himself.

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

    30because 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."

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

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

    5But 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.

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

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

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

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

    4The 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.

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

    23which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

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

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

    7You husbands, in like manner, 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.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

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

    8For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

    9for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.

    10For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.

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

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

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1In like manner, 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;

  • Col 1:18
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    18He is the head of the body, the assembly, 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 doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

  • Titus 2:5
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    5to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

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

    24Therefore 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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    5and 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?'

  • 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, Christ;

  • 1 Cor 7:33
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    33but he who is married is concerned about 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 husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now are they holy.

  • 1 Cor 14:34
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    34let 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.

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

  • 1 Cor 7:39
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    39A 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.

  • Prov 31:23
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    23Her husband is respected in the gates, When he sits among the elders of the land.

  • 1 Cor 7:10
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    10But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband

  • Rom 7:2
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    2For 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.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:16
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    16Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."