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Colossians 3:18

Colossians chapter 3 · verse 18 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.17And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

v.18This passage

v.19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Corinthians 14:34

    let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.

  • Titus 2:4

    that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

  • Genesis 3:16

    Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

  • Ephesians 5:22

    Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

  • Acts 5:29

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

  • 1 Peter 3:1

    In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;