Colossians 3:18
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Majority Standard Bible
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 harsh with them.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
Acts 5:29But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
1 Corinthians 14:34Your women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
Ephesians 5:22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
Titus 2:4In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and 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 →