Colossians 3:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.

Esther 1:20

And when this order, given by the king, is made public through all his kingdom for it is great, all the wives will give honour to their husbands, great as well as small.

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.

1 Corinthians 11:3

But it is important for you to keep this fact in mind, 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 women keep quiet in the churches: for it is not right for them to be talking; but let them be under control, as it says in the law.

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

Ephesians 5:3

But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;

Ephesians 5:9

Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true,

1 Timothy 2:12

In my opinion it is right for a woman not to be a teacher, or to have rule over a man, but to be quiet.