Colossians 3:18
Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
In Context
19Husbands, loue your wiues, and be not bitter vnto them.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16Vnto the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy sorowes, and thy conceptions. In sorowe shalt thou bring foorth children, and thy desire shalbe subiect to thine husband, and he shall rule ouer thee.
Acts 5:29Then Peter and the Apostles answered, and sayd, We ought rather to obey God then men.
1 Corinthians 14:34Let your women keepe silence in the Churches: for it is not permitted vnto them to speake: but they ought to be subiect, as also the Lawe sayth.
Ephesians 5:22Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as vnto the Lord.
Titus 2:4That they may instruct the yong women to be sober minded, that they loue their husbands, that they loue 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 →