Colossians 3:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁸ Wives, be in subjection 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

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Esther 1:20

And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.

Acts 5:29

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

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 14:34

Let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Ephesians 5:3

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

Ephesians 5:9

(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

1 Timothy 2:12

But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.