Colossians 3:18
Wives, be ye submissive to your own husbands as is proper in Lord.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
In Context
19Husbands, love the wives and do not be made bitter against them.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy childbearing, in pain thou shall bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Acts 5:29And Peter and the apostles having answered, they said, We must obey God rather than men.
1 Corinthians 14:34As in all the churches of the sanctified, let the women keep silent in the churches. For it is not permitted for them to speak, but to be subordinate, as the law also says.
Ephesians 5:22Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.
Titus 2:4so that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:13-18
Love Recommended. ( a. d. 62.) 12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. 16 Let the word of… Read the whole commentary →