Colossians 3:18
Wives, be ye subject to your husbands, as is right in the Messiah.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
In Context
19Husbands, love ye your wives, and be not bitter towards them.
Cross References
Acts 5:29And Simon, with the legates, answered and said to them: God is to be obeyed, rather than men.
1 Corinthians 14:34Let your women be silent in the church: for it is not permitted them to speak, but to be in subjection, as also the law saith.
Ephesians 5:22Wives, be ye submissive to your husbands, as to our Lord.
Titus 2:4making the younger women to be modest, 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 →