Colossians 3:18
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it is becoming in the Lord.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
In Context
19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Cross References
Acts 5:29But Peter and the apostles answered and said: We must obey God rather than men.
1 Corinthians 14:34Let your women keep silence in the assemblies; for they ire not permitted to speak; but they must be in subjection, as also says the law.
Ephesians 5:22Wives, be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord:
Titus 2:4That they may teach the young women to be sober-minded, 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 →