Colossians 3:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.”
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“Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;”
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Other passages that echo Colossians 3:18 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:16To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
- Esther 1:20The edict the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom—and so all women, from the least to the greatest, will honor their husbands.”
- Acts 5:29But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
- 1 Corinthians 11:3But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
- 1 Corinthians 14:34Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
- Ephesians 5:3But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
- Ephesians 5:22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
- 1 Timothy 2:12I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; she is to remain quiet.
- Titus 2:4In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
- 1 Peter 3:1Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives
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