Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. New Living Translation As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything. English Standard Version Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Berean Study Bible Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Berean Literal Bible But even as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to the own husbands in everything. New American Standard Bible But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. King James Bible Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Christian Standard Bible Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. Contemporary English Version Wives should always put their husbands first, as the church puts Christ first. Good News Translation And so wives must submit themselves completely to their husbands just as the church submits itself to Christ. Holman Christian Standard Bible Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. International Standard Version Indeed, just as the church is submissive to the Messiah, so wives must be submissive to their husbands in everything. NET Bible But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. New Heart English Bible But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything. Aramaic Bible in Plain English But just as the church is subject to The Messiah, in this way also wives are to their husbands in all things. GOD'S WORD® Translation As the church is under Christ's authority, so wives are under their husbands' authority in everything. New American Standard 1977 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. Jubilee Bible 2000 Therefore, as the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} is subject unto the Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. King James 2000 Bible Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. American King James Version Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. American Standard Version But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything. Douay-Rheims Bible Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things. Darby Bible Translation But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything. English Revised Version But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything. Webster's Bible Translation Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Weymouth New Testament And just as the Church submits to Christ, so also married women should be entirely submissive to their husbands. World English Bible But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything. Young's Literal Translation but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything. Study Bible Wives and Husbands…23For the husband is head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her… Cross References Luke 10:17 The seventy-two returned with joy and said, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name." Ephesians 5:23 For the husband is head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her Treasury of Scripture Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. in. Ephesians 5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife … Exodus 23:13 And in all things that I have said to you be circumspect: and make … Exodus 29:35 And thus shall you do to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all … Colossians 3:20,22 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing … Titus 2:7,9 In all things showing yourself a pattern of good works: in doctrine … Verse 24. - But [it exists so far as to enforce this exhortation] as the Church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their husbands in everything. Let there be a subjection in the one case parallel to that in the other, for such is the Divine will and purpose. Any subjection due to the husband must be modified by what is due to God, for as the husband may not require for himself, so the wife may not give to him, what is God's: God's will is paramount over all. Of the three wills that may be in collision, viz. God's, the husband's, and the wife's - the duty of the wife is to take them in this order, having regard first to God's, next to her husband's, and last to her own. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ,.... Her head, being wholly dependent upon him, and entirely resigned to him, and receiving all from him; from whom alone is all her expectation of provision, protection, comfort, and happiness; wherefore she has respect to all his commands, and esteems all his precepts concerning all things to be right; and yields a cheerful, voluntary, sincere, and hearty obedience to them; arising from a principle of love to him, and joined with honour, fear, and reverence of him: so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything: political, domestic, and ecclesiastic; that is consistent with the laws of God, and the Gospel of Christ. 24. Therefore—Translate, as Greek, "But," or "Nevertheless," that is, though there be the difference of headships mentioned in Eph 5:23, nevertheless, thus far they are one, namely, in the subjection or submission (the same Greek stands for "is subject," as for "submit," Eph 5:21, 22) of the Church to Christ, being the prototype of that of the wife to the husband. their own—not in most of the oldest manuscripts, and not needed by the argument. in every thing—appertaining to a husband's legitimate authority; "in the Lord" (Col 3:18); everything not contrary to God.5:22-33 The duty of wives is, submission to their husbands in the Lord, which includes honouring and obeying them, from a principle of love to them. The duty of husbands is to love their wives. The love of Christ to the church is an example, which is sincere, pure, and constant, notwithstanding her failures. Christ gave himself for the church, that he might sanctify it in this world, and glorify it in the next, that he might bestow on all his members a principle of holiness, and deliver them from the guilt, the pollution, and the dominion of sin, by those influences of the Holy Spirit, of which baptismal water was the outward sign. The church and believers will not be without spot or wrinkle till they come to glory. But those only who are sanctified now, shall be glorified hereafter. The words of Adam, mentioned by the apostle, are spoken literally of marriage; but they have also a hidden sense in them, relating to the union between Christ and his church. It was a kind of type, as having resemblance. There will be failures and defects on both sides, in the present state of human nature, yet this does not alter the relation. All the duties of marriage are included in unity and love. And while we adore and rejoice in the condescending love of Christ, let husbands and wives learn hence their duties to each other. Thus the worst evils would be prevented, and many painful effects would be avoided. Jump to Previous Assembly Authority Christ Christ's Church Entirely Husbands Married Ought Rule Subject Submissive Submit Submits Wives WomenJump to Next Assembly Authority Christ Christ's Church Entirely Husbands Married Ought Rule Subject Submissive Submit Submits Wives WomenLinks Ephesians 5:24 NIVEphesians 5:24 NLT Ephesians 5:24 ESV Ephesians 5:24 NASB Ephesians 5:24 KJV Ephesians 5:24 Bible Apps Ephesians 5:24 Biblia Paralela Ephesians 5:24 Chinese Bible Ephesians 5:24 French Bible Ephesians 5:24 German Bible Alphabetical: also as be But Christ church everything husbands in is Now ought should so subject submit submits the their to wives NT Letters: Ephesians 5:24 But as the assembly is subject (Ephes. Eph. 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