Ephesians 5:22
Modern Translations
New International Version
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.

New Living Translation
For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

English Standard Version
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Berean Study Bible
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

New American Standard Bible
Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

NASB 1995
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

NASB 1977
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Amplified Bible
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as [a service] to the Lord.

Christian Standard Bible
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord,

Contemporary English Version
A wife should put her husband first, as she does the Lord.

Good News Translation
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Wives, place yourselves under your husbands' authority as you have placed yourselves under the Lord's authority.

International Standard Version
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord.

NET Bible
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

New King James Version
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

King James 2000 Bible
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

New Heart English Bible
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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

American King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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

A Faithful Version
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord;

Darby Bible Translation
Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as vnto the Lord.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Wyues, submit your selues vnto your owne husbandes, as vnto the Lorde:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Let the wemen submytte them selues vnto their hussbandes, as vnto the LORDE.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Wemen submit youre selves vnto youre awne husbandes as vnto the Lorde.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The wives: [subject yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the LORD,

Berean Literal Bible
wives, to the own husbands as to the Lord;

Young's Literal Translation
The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

Smith's Literal Translation
Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Literal Emphasis Translation
Wives, to their own husbands, as to the Lord,

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

Catholic Public Domain Version
Wives should be submissive to their husbands, as to the Lord.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Wives, be subject to your husbands as to Our Lord,

Lamsa Bible
Wives submit yourselves to your husbands as to our LORD.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
Wives, be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord:

Godbey New Testament
Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

Haweis New Testament
Wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Mace New Testament
let married women be submissive to their husbands, out of regard to the Lord.

Weymouth New Testament
Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;

Worrell New Testament
the wives, to their own husbands, as to the Lord;

Worsley New Testament
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord:
















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