Ephesians 5:22 · KJV
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
— Ephesians 5:22
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Ephesians 5 — Context
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so {let} the wives {be} to their own husbands in every thing.
Cross References
Colossians 3:18
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
1 Peter 3:1-6
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;
Titus 2:5
{To be} discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Genesis 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. {to thy...: or, subject to thy husband}
Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Esther 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.
1 Timothy 2:11-12
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Esther 1:16-18
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 king Ahasuerus.