Colossians 3:18
Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 do not be bitter toward them.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16To the woman, he also said: “I will multiply your labors and your conceptions. In pain shall you give birth to sons, and you shall be under your husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over you.”
Acts 5:29But Peter and the Apostles responded by saying: “It is necessary to obey God, more so than men.
1 Corinthians 14:34Women should be silent in the churches. For it is not permitted for them to speak; but instead, they should be subordinate, as the law also says.
Ephesians 5:22Wives should be submissive to their husbands, as to the Lord.
Titus 2:4so that they may teach prudence to the young women, so that they may love their husbands, 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 →