Ephesians 5:22 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

English ASV

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

English Amplified

Wives, be subject (be submissive and adapt yourselves) to your own husbands as [a service] to the Lord.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Wives, be subject (be submissive and adapt yourselves) to your own husbands as [a service] to the Lord.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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

English EASY 2024

Wives, obey your own husbands, as you obey the Lord.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Wives, be willing to serve your husbands the same as the Lord.

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Wives, place yourselves under your husbands' authority as you have placed yourselves under the Lord's authority.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord,

English KJV 1611

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

English LSB

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

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Wives, be submissive to your own husbands as unto the Lord.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

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

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Wives, follow the lead of your husbands as you follow the Lord.

English NIV

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

English NKJ 1982

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

English NLT

You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

For wives, this means being devoted to your husbands like you are tenderly devoted to our Lord,

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

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

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

You wives must submit to your husbands' leadership in the same way you submit to the Lord.

English Tyndale 1537

Women submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Ephesians 5:22 — Compare Translations