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Colossians 3:18

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Family;   Husband;   Wife;   Thompson Chain Reference - Duty;   Home;   Social Duties;   Wives' Duty;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Marriage;   Submission;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Marriage;   Sexuality, Human;   Woman;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Wife;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Colosse;   Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Colossians;   Marriage;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   Grace;   Marriage;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Angels;   Christian Life;   Colossians, Epistle to the;   Commandment;   Family;   Justice;   Liberty;   Marriage;   Quotations;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Husband;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Essenes, the;   In the Lord;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Marriage;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
King James Version (1611)
Wiues, submit your selues vnto your owne husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
English Standard Version
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
New American Standard Bible
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
New Century Version
Wives, yield to the authority of your husbands, because this is the right thing to do in the Lord.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Contemporary English Version
A wife must put her husband first. This is her duty as a follower of the Lord.
Complete Jewish Bible
Wives, subject yourselves to your husbands, as is appropriate in the Lord.
Darby Translation
Wives, be subject to [your] husbands, as is fitting in [the] Lord.
Easy-to-Read Version
Wives, be willing to serve your husbands. This is the right thing to do in following the Lord.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.
George Lamsa Translation
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is appropriate in Christ.
Good News Translation
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, for that is what you should do as Christians.
Lexham English Bible
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Literal Translation
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Amplified Bible
Wives, be subject to your husbands [out of respect for their position as protector, and their accountability to God], as is proper and fitting in the Lord.
American Standard Version
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.
Hebrew Names Version
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
International Standard Version
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.Ephesians 5:3,22; Titus 2:5; 1 Peter 3:1;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
WIVES, be subject to your husbands, as it is right in the Meshiha.
Murdock Translation
Wives, be ye subject to your husbands, as is right in the Messiah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wiues, submit your selues vnto your owne husbandes, as it is comely in the Lorde.
English Revised Version
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
World English Bible
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands (as is fit) in the Lord.
Weymouth's New Testament
Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Wymmen, be ye sugetis to youre hosebondis, as it bihoueth in the Lord.
Update Bible Version
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Webster's Bible Translation
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
New English Translation
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
New King James Version
Ephesians 5:21-6:9">[xr] Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
New Living Translation
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord.
New Life Bible
Wives, obey your husbands. This is what the Lord wants you to do.
New Revised Standard
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye wives! be submitting yourselves unto your husbands, as is becoming in the Lord;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Wyves submit youre selves vnto youre awne husbandes as it is comly in the Lorde.
Young's Literal Translation
The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye wyues, submytte youre selues vnto youre hussbandes, as it is comly in the LORDE.
Mace New Testament (1729)
Dames, be submissive to your husbands, as becomes christians.
THE MESSAGE
Wives, understand and support your husbands by submitting to them in ways that honor the Master.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Ladies, show respect for your husbands and submit to him out of your love for the Lord.

Contextual Overview

18Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.19Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. 20Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord. 21Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged. 22Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord. 23Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men, 24because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. 25Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

submit: Genesis 3:16, Esther 1:20, 1 Corinthians 11:3, 1 Corinthians 14:34, Ephesians 5:22-24, Ephesians 5:33, 1 Timothy 2:12, Titus 2:4, Titus 2:5, 1 Peter 3:1-6

as: Acts 5:29, Ephesians 5:3, Ephesians 6:1

Reciprocal: Ruth 1:8 - the dead 1 Timothy 2:11 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
Joshua 23:13
know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge for your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
Job 1:21
saying: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD."
Job 5:5
The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns; and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
Job 31:40
then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley." Thus conclude the words of Job.
Psalms 90:3
You return man to dust, saying, "Return, O sons of mortals."
Psalms 104:2
He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,
Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.
Proverbs 24:31
Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands,.... The apostle proceeds from those duties which related to them as church members one towards another, for their mutual good and edification, and the glory of God, to such as concerned them in their own houses and families, as in a natural relation to each other; as husbands and wives, parents and children, masters and servants; showing hereby, that the Gospel does not at all break in upon, but establishes the duties of common and civil life. Concerning the duty wives to their husbands, here exhorted to, :-. The reason urging to a regard to it is,

as it is fit in the Lord; that is, Christ, as the Syriac version reads it. Subjection of wives to their own husbands is "fit" and proper in its own nature, by reason of the original creation of man, and of the woman from him: man was made first, and then the woman; and the woman was made out of the man, out of one of his ribs; and so, though not to be trampled under his feet, but to be by his side, and an help meet to him, yet not to be head, or to rule over him. Moreover, the woman was made for the man, and not the man for the woman; add to this, that the woman was in the transgression, and the means of the fall of man, which gave a fresh reason for, and made the obligation to subjection to him the stronger: and it is also a "decent" and becoming thing for wives to be subject to their husbands; for as it is giving honour to them, it is a real ornament to themselves, and is one of those good works which women professing godliness should adorn themselves with; and makes more comely and beautiful than broidered hair; gold, pearls, or costly array, yea, than their natural favour and beauty: it is what is fitting "in the Lord": it is what he requires, not only what the law of God requires, see 1 Corinthians 14:34 and which was enjoined originally, see Genesis 3:16 and was charged as a duty under the legal dispensation; but is what is commanded by Christ under the Gospel dispensation, and is to be observed by all those that are "in" him, that profess to be new creatures, converted persons, that so the word of God be not blasphemed, and the enemy have no occasion to reproach, see Titus 2:5 though this phrase may also be considered as a restriction and limitation of this subjection; that though it reaches to all things, yet only to such as are agreeable to the will of the Lord, and not contrary to the Gospel of Christ; for in these they are not to be subject to them, but to Christ the Lord; but in all other things they are, even as the church is subject to Christ: and when this is the case, such subjection is regarded by Christ as if it was done to himself; and indeed his honour and glory should be the governing view in it; see Ephesians 5:22.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wives, submit yourselves ... - Notes on the parallel passage in Ephesians 5:21-24.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. Wives, 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 the same in substance with those in Ephesians 5:22-33(note); Ephesians 6:1-9 (note), that there is no need to repeat what has been said on those passages; and to the notes there the reader is requested to refer.

As it is fit in the Lord. — God commands it; and it is both proper and decent.


 
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