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Ephesians 5:24

But as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives should be subject to their husbands in everything [respecting both their position as protector and their responsibility to God as head of the house].

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Family;   Husband;   Wife;   The Topic Concordance - Body;   Cleanness;   Marriage;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Church, the;   Love of Christ, the;   Marriage;   Wives;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Solomon's Song;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Head;   Husband;   Marriage;   Wife;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Body of Christ;   Church, the;   Head, Headship;   Marriage;   Overseer;   Paul the Apostle;   Sexuality, Human;   Union with Christ;   Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Church;   Self-Denial;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Wife;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Canticles;   ;   Church;   Divorce;   Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Body of Christ;   Church;   Ephesians, Book of;   Head;   Head of the Church;   Marriage;   Paul;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Song of Solomon;   Woman;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ephesians, Epistle to;   Marriage;   Peter, First Epistle of;   Woman;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Adultery ;   Body (2);   Character;   Commandment;   Dependence;   Ephesians Epistle to the;   Family;   Marriage;   Marriage (I.);   Woman;   Worldliness;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Husband;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Body;   Lamech;   Marriage;   Play;   Veil;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Church Government;   Ephesians, Epistle to the;   Essenes, the;   Purity;   Song of Songs;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Marriage;   Saul of Tarsus;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
The church serves under Christ, so it is the same with you wives. You should be willing to serve your husbands in everything.
Revised Standard Version
As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Therfore as the cogregacion is in subieccion to Christ lykwyse let the wyves be in subieccion to their husbandes in all thinges.
Hebrew Names Version
But as the assembly is subject to Messiah, so let the wives also be to their 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.
New Century Version
As the church yields to Christ, so you wives should yield to your husbands in everything.
Update Bible 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.
English Standard Version
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything 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.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
(and he is the Saviour of the body) Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Weymouth's New Testament
And just as the Church submits to Christ, so also married women should be entirely submissive to their husbands.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But as the chirche is suget to Crist, so wymmen to her hosebondis in alle thingis.
English Revised Version
But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
Berean Standard Bible
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Contemporary English Version
Wives should always put their husbands first, as the church puts Christ first.
American Standard Version
But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
Bible in Basic English
And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.
Complete Jewish Bible
Just as the Messianic Community submits to the Messiah, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Darby Translation
But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.
International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
But as the church is subject to Meshiha, so also (should) wives be unto their husbands in every thing.
Murdock Translation
And as the church is subject to the Messiah, so also let wives be to their husbands in all things.
King James Version (1611)
Therefore as the Church is subiect vnto Christ, so let the wiues bee to their owne husbands in euery thing.
New Living Translation
As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
New Life Bible
As the church is to obey Christ, wives are to obey their own husbands in everything.
New Revised Standard
Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therfore as the Church is in subiection to Christ, euen so let the wiues be to their husbads in euery thing.
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Nevertheless, as, the assembly, submitteth herself unto the Christ, so, the wives, unto 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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But as the Church is subiect to Christ, lykewyse the wyues to their owne husbandes in all thynges.
Good News Translation
And so wives must submit themselves completely to their husbands just as the church submits itself to Christ.
Christian Standard Bible®
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.
King James Version
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Lexham English Bible
But as the church is subject to Christ, thus also wives should be subject to their husbands in everything.
Literal Translation
But even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also the wives 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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore as the congregacion is in subieccion to Christ, likewyse let the wyues be in subieccion to their hussbandes in all thinges.
Mace New Testament (1729)
as the church then is subordinate to Christ, so let women be to their husbands upon all occasions.
New English Translation
But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
New King James Version
Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
Simplified Cowboy Version
As the outfit is honorable and reverent of Christ, so you wives must be honorable and reverent to your husbands in everything.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
Legacy Standard Bible
But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

Contextual Overview

21being subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as [a service] to the Lord. 23For the husband is head of the wife, as Christ is head of the church, Himself being the Savior of the body. 24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives should be subject to their husbands in everything [respecting both their position as protector and their responsibility to God as head of the house].25Husbands, love your wives [seek the highest good for her and surround her with a caring, unselfish love], just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26so that He might sanctify the church, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word [of God], 27so that [in turn] He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy [set apart for God] and blameless. 28Even so husbands should and are morally obligated to love their own wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own body, but [instead] he nourishes and protects and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30because we are members (parts) of His body.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in: Ephesians 5:33, Exodus 23:13, Exodus 29:35, Colossians 3:20, Colossians 3:22, Titus 2:7, Titus 2:9

Reciprocal: Esther 1:12 - refused Isaiah 55:4 - a leader Matthew 22:2 - which 1 Corinthians 11:3 - and the head of the Ephesians 5:21 - submitting Ephesians 5:22 - submit 1 Timothy 3:5 - the church Hebrews 12:23 - the general

Cross-References

Genesis 5:5
So Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years in all, and he died.
Genesis 5:6
When Seth was a hundred and five years old, he became the father of Enosh.
Genesis 5:22
Enoch walked [in habitual fellowship] with God three hundred years after the birth of Methuselah and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 37:30
He rejoined his brothers and said, "The boy is not there; as for me, where shall I go [to hide from my father]?"
Genesis 42:36
Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me [by causing the loss] of my children. Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin [from me]. All these things are [working] against me."
2 Kings 2:1
When the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.
Jeremiah 31:15
Thus says the LORD, "A voice is heard in Ramah, Lamentation (songs of mourning) and bitter weeping. Rachel (Israel) is weeping for her children; She refuses to be comforted for her children, Because they are gone."
Matthew 2:18
"A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH, WEEPING AND GREAT MOURNING, RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN; SHE REFUSED TO BE COMFORTED, BECAUSE THEY WERE NO MORE."
Luke 23:43
Jesus said to him, "I assure you and most solemnly say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise."
1 John 1:7
but if we [really] walk in the Light [that is, live each and every day in conformity with the precepts of God], as He Himself is in the Light, we have [true, unbroken] fellowship with one another [He with us, and we with Him], and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin [by erasing the stain of sin, keeping us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In everything - In everything which is not contrary to the will of God; see the notes on Ephesians 5:23.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 24. In every thing. — That is, every lawful thing; for it is not intimated that they should obey their husbands in any thing criminal, or in any thing detrimental to the interests of their souls. The husband may be profligate, and may wish his wife to become such also; he may be an enemy to true religion, and use his authority to prevent his wife from those means of grace which she finds salutary to her soul; in none of these things should she obey him.


 
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