Colossians 3:18 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁸ Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as is proper in the Master.

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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

Genesis 3:16

To the woman He said, “I greatly increase your sorrow and your conception – bring forth children in pain. And your desire is for your husband, and he does rule over you.”

Esther 1:20

“And the sovereign’s decree which he makes shall be proclaimed throughout all his rule, great as it is, and all the wives give esteem to their husbands, both great and small.”

Acts 5:29

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1 Corinthians 11:3

And I wish you to know that the head of every man is the Messiah, and the head of woman is the man, and the head of Messiah is Elohim.

1 Corinthians 14:34

Let your women be silent in the assemblies, for they are not allowed to speak, but let them subject themselves, as the Torah also says.

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Master.

Ephesians 5:3

But whoring and all uncleanness, or greed of gain, let it not even be named among you, as is proper among set-apart ones –

Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth –

1 Timothy 2:12

But I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, rather, to be in silence.