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Source language
Original Greek   
Αἱ γυναῖκες, ὑποτάσσεσθε ⸀τοῖς ἀνδράσιν, ὡς ἀνῆκεν ἐν κυρίῳ.
Greek - Transliteration via code library   
Ai gunaikes, upotassesthe rtois andrasin, os aneken en kurio.

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
mulieres subditae estote viris sicut oportet in Domino

King James Variants
American King James Version   
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fitting in the Lord.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Authorized (King James) Version   
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
New King James Version   
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
21st Century King James Version   
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as that is right in The Messiah.
Darby Bible Translation   
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
God's Word   
Wives, place yourselves under your husbands' authority. This is appropriate behavior for the Lord's people.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
International Standard Version   
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is appropriate for those who belong to the Lord.
NET Bible   
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
New American Standard Bible   
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
New International Version   
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
New Living Translation   
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord.
Webster's Bible Translation   
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Weymouth New Testament   
Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
The World English Bible   
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
EasyEnglish Bible   
Wives, obey your husbands. That is the right thing to do, because you belong to the Lord.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;
New Life Version   
Wives, obey your husbands. This is what the Lord wants you to do.
Revised Geneva Translation   
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as it is fitting in the Lord.
The Voice Bible   
Wives: be submitted to your husbands as is appropriate in the Lord.
Living Bible   
You wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, for that is what the Lord has planned for you.
New Catholic Bible   
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible   
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
Wives, be subject to your own husbands as it is fit in the Lord.
Christian Standard Bible   
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
Wives, be subject to your husbands [subordinate and adapt yourselves to them], as is right and fitting and your proper duty in the Lord.
New Century Version   
Wives, yield to the authority of your husbands, because this is the right thing to do in the Lord.
The Message   
Wives, understand and support your husbands by submitting to them in ways that honor the Master.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament   
· Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
New Matthew Bible   
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is fitting in the Lord.
Good News Translation®   
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, for that is what you should do as Christians.
Wycliffe Bible   
Women, be ye subject to your husbands, as it behooveth in the Lord.
New Testament for Everyone   
Now a word for wives: you should be subject to your husbands. This is appropriate in the Lord.
Contemporary English Version   
A wife must put her husband first. This is her duty as a follower of the Lord.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
J.B. Phillips New Testament   
Wives, adapt yourselves to your husbands, that your marriage may be a Christian unity.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Wives, submit to your husbands in a way that is appropriate in the Lord.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
Wives, be subject to your husbands [out of respect for their position as protector, and their accountability to God], as is proper and fitting in the Lord.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Wives, be subordinate to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord.
New American Standard Bible   
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
The Expanded Bible   
Wives, ·yield to the authority of [submit to] your husbands, because this is ·the right thing to do [appropriate; fitting] in the Lord [Eph. 5:22–24; 1 Pet. 3:1–6].
Tree of Life Version   
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Revised Standard Version   
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
New International Reader's Version   
Wives, follow the lead of your husbands. That’s what the Lord wants you to do.
BRG Bible   
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Complete Jewish Bible   
Wives, subject yourselves to your husbands, as is appropriate in the Lord.
Worldwide English (New Testament)   
Wives, obey your husbands. This is the right way to live when you belong to the Lord.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
Nashim (wives), make yourselves accountable to your ba’alim (husbands), as is proper in Adoneinu.
Names of God Bible   
Wives, place yourselves under your husbands’ authority. This is appropriate behavior for the Lord’s people.
Modern English Version   
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is fitting in the Lord.
Easy-to-Read Version   
Wives, be willing to serve your husbands. This is the right thing to do in following the Lord.
International Children’s Bible   
Wives, be under the authority of your husbands. This is the right thing to do in the Lord.
Lexham English Bible   
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
New International Version - UK   
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Disciples Literal New Testament   
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it is fitting in the Lord.