Ephesians 5:24
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
KJV
ἀλλὰ ὡς ἡ ἐκκλησία ὑποτάσσεται τῷ Χριστῷ, οὕτως καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες τοῖς ἀνδράσιν ἐν παντί.
Greek NT
Sed sicut Ecclesia subjecta est Christo, ita et mulieres viris suis in omnibus.
Vulgate
But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
ASV
Therefore as the church is subject to Christ: so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
οὕτω
outo
adverb · 208×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἐκκλησία
ekklesia
noun · 114×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑποτάσσω
upotasso
verb · 38×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: ὡς | WH/Treg/NIV: ὡς | RP: ὡσπερ
- ὡς — SBLGNT
- ὡς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ὡσπερ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: τοῖς | WH/Treg/NIV: τοῖς | RP: + ἰδίοις
- τοῖς — SBLGNT
- τοῖς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ἰδίοις — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Tim 3:5 — (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
- Col 3:20 — Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
- Col 3:20 — Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto 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.
- Matt 22:2 — The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
- Titus 2:7 — In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
- Titus 2:9 — Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;