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Colossians 3:18
18Wives, be subject to [your] husbands, as is fitting in [the] Lord.
Colossians 3:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
- New International Version (NIV)Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Context of Colossians 3:18
16Let the word of the Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another, in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God. 17And everything, whatever ye may do in word or in deed, [do] all things in [the] name of [the] Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father by him. Wives, be subject to [your] husbands, as is fitting in [the] Lord. 19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. 20Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in [the] Lord.
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Αἱ γυναῖκες, ὑποτάσσεσθε τοῖς ἀνδράσιν ὡς ἀνῆκεν ἐν κυρίῳ.¶Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Colossians 3:18
- Genesis 3:16To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
- Esther 1:20and when the king's edict which he shall make shall be heard throughout his realm — for it is great — all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, from the greatest to the least.
- 1 Corinthians 11:3But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head [is] the man, and the Christ's head God.
- 1 Corinthians 14:34Let [your] women be silent in the assemblies, for it is not permitted to them to speak; but to be in subjection, as the law also says.
- Ephesians 5:22Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
- 1 Timothy 2:12but I do not suffer a woman to teach nor to exercise authority over man, but to be in quietness;
- 1 Peter 3:1Likewise, wives, [be] subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without [the] word by the conversation of the wives,
- Acts 5:29But Peter answering, and the apostles, said, God must be obeyed rather than men.
- Ephesians 5:3But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
- Ephesians 6:1Children, obey your parents in [the] Lord, for this is just.
Commentaries on Colossians 3:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18Wives, submit yourselves - Having done with general directions, the apostle comes to particular duties, which are commonly called relative; because they only belong to persons in certain situations; and are not incumbent on all. No woman has the duty of a wife to perform but she who is one, and no man has the duty of a husband to perform but he who is married. The directions here to wives, husbands, children, parents, servants, and masters, are so exactly…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18Wives, submit yourselves - Notes on the parallel passage in Ephesians 5:21-24.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-25Verses 18-25 The epistles most taken up in displaying the glory of the Divine grace, and magnifying the Lord Jesus, are the most particular in pressing the duties of the Christian life. We must never separate the privileges and duties of the gospel. Submission is the duty of wives. But it is submission, not to a severe lord or stern tyrant, but to her own husband, who is engaged to affectionate duty. And husbands must love their wives with tender and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18To submit means understanding your position below someone else in a society. This submission always suggests that God is at the top and his will is most important (see Acts 4:19–20; 5:29).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. unto your own husbands--The oldest manuscripts omit "own," which crept in from Ep 5:22. as it is fit in the Lord--Greek, "was fit," implying that there was at Colosse some degree of failure in fulfilling this duty, "as it was your duty to have done as disciples of the Lord."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Colossians 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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