Ephesians 5:22

World English Bible

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

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Ephesians 5:22 in other translations

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

Ephesians 5:22 · American Standard Version

Ephesians 5:22 in context

  1. 20giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
  2. 21subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
  3. 22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
  4. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
  5. 24But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

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