Colossians 3:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.

Colossians 3:18 Cross References

Ephesians 5:22

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

1 Corinthians 11:3

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

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

1 Timothy 2:12

I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent.

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.”

1 Corinthians 14:34

the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says.

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Ephesians 5:3

But fornication and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is fitting among saints.

Ephesians 5:9

(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),