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Ephesians 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.

KJV

πλὴν καὶ ὑμεῖς οἱ καθ’ ἕνα ἕκαστος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα οὕτως ἀγαπάτω ὡς ἑαυτόν, ἡ δὲ γυνὴ ἵνα φοβῆται τὸν ἄνδρα.

Greek NT

Verumtamen et vos singuli, unusquisque uxorem suam sicut seipsum diligat : uxor autem timeat virum suum.

Vulgate

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

ASV

Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular love for his wife as himself: And let the wife fear her husband.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
οὕτω
outo
adverb · 208×
πλήν
plen
adverb · 31×
φοβέω
phobeo
verb · 95×
ἀγαπάω
agapao
verb · 143×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×
ἕκαστος
ekastos
adjective · 84×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 7:2 — Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
  • 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.
  • 1Kgs 1:31 — Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
  • 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 3:2 — While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
  • 1Pet 3:2 — While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
  • 1Pet 3:7 — Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hinder
  • 1Thess 5:15 — See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
  • Col 3:19 — Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
  • Col 3:19 — Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
  • Eph 5:15 — See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
  • Eph 5:22 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
  • Eph 5:24 — Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
  • Eph 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
  • Eph 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
  • Eph 5:28 — So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
  • Eph 5:28 — So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
  • Esth 1:17 — For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be bro
  • 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.
  • Heb 12:9 — Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
  • Rom 13:7 — Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
  • Titus 2:5 — To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.