Colossians 3:18
You married women, respect your husbands appropriately in the Lord.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
In Context
19You married men, love your wives and don't treat them badly.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16He told Eve, “I will make pregnancy much more difficult, and giving birth will be very painful. However, you will still desire your husband, but he will have control over you.”
Acts 5:29But Peter and the apostles answered, “We have to obey God rather than men.
1 Corinthians 14:34“Women should stay quiet in the churches—they shouldn't speak. They should respect their situation, as the laws states.
Ephesians 5:22Wives, do what your own husbands tell you to do, as you would if the Lord told you.
Titus 2:4They should be teachers of what's good, teaching the young wives to love their husbands and 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 →