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Colossians 3:18
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Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Ladies, show respect for your husbands and submit to him out of your love for the Lord.
Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.
Wives, be subject to [your] husbands, as is fitting in [the] Lord.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands (as is fit) in the Lord.
Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wiues, submit your selues vnto your owne husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Ye wyues, submytte youre selues vnto youre hussbandes, as it is comly in the LORDE.
Dames, be submissive to your husbands, as becomes christians.
Wives, understand and support your husbands by submitting to them in ways that honor the Master.
Wives, be subject to your husbands [out of respect for their position as protector, and their accountability to God], as is proper and fitting in the Lord.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wyves submit youre selves vnto youre awne husbandes as it is comly in the Lorde.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;
Wives, yield to the authority of your husbands, because this is the right thing to do in the Lord.
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
A wife must put her husband first. This is her duty as a follower of the Lord.
Wives, subject yourselves to your husbands, as is appropriate in the Lord.
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is appropriate in Christ.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.Ephesians 5:3,22; Titus 2:5; 1 Peter 3:1;">[xr]
WIVES, be subject to your husbands, as it is right in the Meshiha.
Wives, be ye subject to your husbands, as is right in the Messiah.
Ephesians 5:21-6:9">[xr] Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord.
Wives, obey your husbands. This is what the Lord wants you to do.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Ye wives! be submitting yourselves unto your husbands, as is becoming in the Lord;
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wiues, submit your selues vnto your owne husbandes, as it is comely in the Lorde.
Wives, be willing to serve your husbands. This is the right thing to do in following the Lord.
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, for that is what you should do as Christians.
Wymmen, be ye sugetis to youre hosebondis, as it bihoueth in the Lord.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
submit: Genesis 3:16, Esther 1:20, 1 Corinthians 11:3, 1 Corinthians 14:34, Ephesians 5:22-24, Ephesians 5:33, 1 Timothy 2:12, Titus 2:4, Titus 2:5, 1 Peter 3:1-6
as: Acts 5:29, Ephesians 5:3, Ephesians 6:1
Reciprocal: Ruth 1:8 - the dead 1 Timothy 2:11 - General
Cross-References
Then the Lord God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed more than any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will move on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.
know for certain that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out before you. They will become a snare and a trap for you, a scourge for your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God has given you.
saying: Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will leave this life. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Praise the name of Yahweh.
The hungry consume his harvest, even taking it out of the thorns. The thirsty pant for his children's wealth.
then let thorns grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are concluded.
You return mankind to the dust, saying, "Return, descendants of Adam."
He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe, spreading out the sky like a canopy,
There are thorns and snares on the path of the crooked; the one who guards himself stays far from them.
Thistles had come up everywhere, weeds covered the ground, and the stone wall was ruined.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands,.... The apostle proceeds from those duties which related to them as church members one towards another, for their mutual good and edification, and the glory of God, to such as concerned them in their own houses and families, as in a natural relation to each other; as husbands and wives, parents and children, masters and servants; showing hereby, that the Gospel does not at all break in upon, but establishes the duties of common and civil life. Concerning the duty wives to their husbands, here exhorted to, :-. The reason urging to a regard to it is,
as it is fit in the Lord; that is, Christ, as the Syriac version reads it. Subjection of wives to their own husbands is "fit" and proper in its own nature, by reason of the original creation of man, and of the woman from him: man was made first, and then the woman; and the woman was made out of the man, out of one of his ribs; and so, though not to be trampled under his feet, but to be by his side, and an help meet to him, yet not to be head, or to rule over him. Moreover, the woman was made for the man, and not the man for the woman; add to this, that the woman was in the transgression, and the means of the fall of man, which gave a fresh reason for, and made the obligation to subjection to him the stronger: and it is also a "decent" and becoming thing for wives to be subject to their husbands; for as it is giving honour to them, it is a real ornament to themselves, and is one of those good works which women professing godliness should adorn themselves with; and makes more comely and beautiful than broidered hair; gold, pearls, or costly array, yea, than their natural favour and beauty: it is what is fitting "in the Lord": it is what he requires, not only what the law of God requires, see 1 Corinthians 14:34 and which was enjoined originally, see Genesis 3:16 and was charged as a duty under the legal dispensation; but is what is commanded by Christ under the Gospel dispensation, and is to be observed by all those that are "in" him, that profess to be new creatures, converted persons, that so the word of God be not blasphemed, and the enemy have no occasion to reproach, see Titus 2:5 though this phrase may also be considered as a restriction and limitation of this subjection; that though it reaches to all things, yet only to such as are agreeable to the will of the Lord, and not contrary to the Gospel of Christ; for in these they are not to be subject to them, but to Christ the Lord; but in all other things they are, even as the church is subject to Christ: and when this is the case, such subjection is regarded by Christ as if it was done to himself; and indeed his honour and glory should be the governing view in it; see Ephesians 5:22.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Wives, submit yourselves ... - Notes on the parallel passage in Ephesians 5:21-24.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 18. Wives, submit yourselves — Having done with general directions, the apostle comes to particular duties, which are commonly called relative; because they only belong to persons in certain situations; and are not incumbent on all. No woman has the duty of a wife to perform but she who is one, and no man has the duty of a husband to perform but he who is married.
The directions here to wives, husbands, children, parents, servants, and masters, are so exactly the same in substance with those in Ephesians 5:22-33(note); Ephesians 6:1-9 (note), that there is no need to repeat what has been said on those passages; and to the notes there the reader is requested to refer.
As it is fit in the Lord. — God commands it; and it is both proper and decent.
