Colossians 3:18
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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 toward them.
Cross References
Acts 5:29And Peter answering, and the apostles, said: We ought to obey God rather than men.
1 Corinthians 14:34Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but they are to be in subjection, as the law also says.
Ephesians 5:22wives to their own husbands, as to the Lord.
Titus 2:4that they may teach the young women 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 →