Colossians 3:18

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 11:3

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

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

1 Timothy 2:12

I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent.

Esther 1:20

So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, vast as it is, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low.”

1 Corinthians 14:34

the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says.

Acts 5:29

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

Ephesians 5:3

But fornication and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is fitting among saints.

Ephesians 5:9

(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),