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Ephesians 5:22

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

KJV

αἱ γυναῖκες τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν ὡς τῷ κυρίῳ,

Greek NT

Mulieres viris suis subditæ sint, sicut Domino :

Vulgate

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

ASV

Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

6 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἴδιος
idios
adjective · 114×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: ἀνδράσιν | WH/NIV: ἀνδράσιν | Treg: + ὑποτασσέσθωσαν | RP: + ὑποτάσσεσθε
  • ἀνδράσιν — SBLGNT
  • ἀνδράσιν — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + ὑποτασσέσθωσαν — Tregelles
  • + ὑποτάσσεσθε — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§67Here, Venerable Brethren, We wish to speak in a very special way of our union with Christ in the Body of the Church, a thing which is, as Augustine justly remarks, sublime, mysterious and divine;[132] ut for that very reason it often happens that many misunderstand it and explain it incorrectly. It is at once evident that this union is very close. In the Sacred Scriptures it is…
§86For there are some who neglect the fact that the Apostle Paul has used metaphorical language in speaking of this doctrine, and failing to distinguish as they should the precise and proper meaning of the terms the physical body, the social body, and the Mystical Body, arrive at a distorted idea of unity. They make the Divine Redeemer and the members of the Church coalesce in one…
Marriage was ordained by God in the time of man's innocency, and is therefore honourable among all men. The parties shall be admonished of their duties: the husband to love his wife as Christ loved the Church, the wife to submit to her husband as to the Lord, and both to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 11:3 — 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.
  • 1Cor 14:34 — Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
  • 1Cor 14:34 — Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
  • 1Pet 3:1 — Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
  • 1Pet 3:1 — Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
  • 1Tim 2:11 — Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
  • 1Tim 2:11 — Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
  • Col 3:18 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
  • Col 3:18 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
  • Eph 5:21 — Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
  • Eph 5:33 — Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
  • Eph 6:5 — Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
  • Esth 1:16 — And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the kin
  • Esth 1:20 — And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
  • Esth 1:20 — And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
  • Esth 1:22 — For he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and
  • Gen 3:16 — Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
  • Gen 3:16 — Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
  • Gen 24:67 — And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
  • Ruth 1:8 — And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother’s house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
  • Titus 2:5 — To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
  • Titus 2:5 — To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.