Colossians 3:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Wives, be subject to your husbands [subordinate and adapt yourselves to them], as is right and fitting and your proper duty in the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Wives, submit to your husbands in a way that is appropriate in the Lord.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.

Colossians 3:18 Cross References

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, “I will make your pangs in childbirth exceedingly great; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

Esther 1:20

So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, vast as it is, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike.”

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than any human authority.

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:34

Women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak but should be subordinate, as the law also says.

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord,

Ephesians 5:3

But sexual immorality and impurity of any kind or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints.

Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.

1 Timothy 2:12

I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent.