Colossians 3:18
Ye wives, submit to your husbands as is becoming in the Lord.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
In Context
19Ye husbands, love your wives with divine love, and be not harsh towards them.
Cross References
Acts 5:29But Peter and the apostles responding said, It behooves us to obey God rather than men.
1 Corinthians 14:34let the women be silent in the churches: for it is not permitted to them to talk; but let them be subordinate, as the law also says.
Ephesians 5:22Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
Titus 2:4in order that they instruct 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 →