Colossians 3:18

Plain English Version

You women that are wives, you have to think about what your husbands want, and agree with them. That is the right way to follow our leader Jesus.

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

Then God said to the woman, “I’m going to give you a lot of trouble. You are going to have a lot of pain whenever you have a baby. It will hurt you a lot. But you will really want to have a husband, and your husband will be your boss.”

Acts 5:29

Peter stood there with Jesus’s other special workers, and he said, “We’ve got to listen to God and do whatever he says, and not listen to people.

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I also want you to know this. Jesus Christ is the leader of every man, like he is the head one. And men are the leaders of women, like they are the head ones. And God is the head one of Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:34

The women have to be quiet in the church meetings. They have to do what the leaders say. That’s what the law says.

Ephesians 5:22

You women that are wives, you have to think about what your husbands want, and agree with them, just like God’s people always have to agree with what our leader, Jesus, wants.

Ephesians 5:3

So don’t sleep with somebody that is not your own wife or husband, as if you are married to them. And don’t be greedy, wanting lots of money and things. You are God’s own people, so don’t even think about doing bad things like that. That’s not the way for God’s people to live.

Ephesians 5:9

You know, if people have God’s light in them, they live in a way that is good, right, and true.

1 Timothy 2:12

I don’t let women teach men or be men’s bosses in spiritual things. They just have to be quiet.