Colossians 3:18
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
World English Bible Classic
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 don’t be bitter against them.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
Acts 5:29But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
1 Corinthians 14:34Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,
Ephesians 5:22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Titus 2:4that they may train the young wives 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 →