Colossians 3:18

New English Translation

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.”

Esther 1:20

And let the king’s decision which he will enact be disseminated throughout all his kingdom, vast though it is. Then all the women will give honor to their husbands, from the most prominent to the lowly.”

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than people.

1 Corinthians 11:3

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

1 Corinthians 14:34

the women should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. Rather, let them be in submission, as in fact the law says.

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

Ephesians 5:3

But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.

Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth –

1 Timothy 2:12

But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man. She must remain quiet.