Colossians 3:18 BSB

Colossians 3:18

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Apostolic Constitutions

Acts of Peter and Paul (380)

I have taught fathers to teach their children instruction in the fear of the Lord, children to obey their parents in wholesome admonition; I have taught wives to love their own husbands, and to fear them as masters, and husbands to observe fidelity to their wives; I have taught masters to treat their slaves with clemency, and slaves to serve their own masters faithfully; I have taught the churches of the believers to reverence one almighty, invisible, and incomprehensible God.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

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; see Gill on Eph 5:

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And this is fit in the Lord, it is becoming the relation, and what they are bound in duty to do, as an instance of obedience to the authority and law of Christ.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Αἱ	Hai	you who [are]	G3588 →
γυναῖκες,	gunaikes	wives,	G1135 →
ὑποτάσσεσθε	hupotassesthe	do be submitted	G5293 →
τοῖς	tois	<the>	G3588 →
ἀνδράσιν	andrasin	husbands	G435 →
ὡς	hōs	as	G5613 →
ἀνῆκεν	anēken	was fitting	G433 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
κυρίῳ.¶	kuriō	[the] Lord.	G2962 →

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 3:16
To 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.”
leads to
- Titus 2:5
  to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ephesians 5:22–24
  Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Corinthians 11:3
  But 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 Timothy 2:15
  Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.
Through
Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
leads to
- Genesis 3:16
  To 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.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Peter 3:1–6
  Wives, 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
- Esther 1:20
  The 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.”
Through
1 Corinthians 11:3
But 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.
leads to
- Colossians 1:18
  And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Colossians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Colossians