Colossians 3:18
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as becometh you in the Lord:
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
In Context
19and ye husbands, love your wives, and be not embittered against them.
Cross References
Acts 5:29But Peter, and the other apostles, answered, and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
1 Corinthians 14:34Let your women be silent in your assemblies: for it is not permitted to them to speak, but they are to be in subjection, as the law saith.
Ephesians 5:22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord:
Titus 2:4that they may instruct the young women to be temperate, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be prudent,
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 →