Colossians 3:18
Good News Translation
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, for that is what you should do as Christians.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

New American Bible
Wives, be subordinate to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.

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Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.

submit.

Genesis 3:16 To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

Esther 1:20 And let this be published through all the provinces of thy empire, (which is very wide,) and let all wives, as well of the greater as of the lesser, give honour to their husbands.

1 Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ: and the head of the woman is the man: and the head of Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 14:34 Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith.

Ephesians 5:22-24,33 Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord: . . .

1 Timothy 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.

Titus 2:4,5 That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children. . . .

1 Peter 3:1-6 In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives, . . .

as.

Acts 5:29 But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God rather than men.

Ephesians 5:3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:

Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just.

Context
Christian Households
17All whatsoever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. 18Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord. 19Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter towards them.…
Cross References
Esther 1:20
And let this be published through all the provinces of thy empire, (which is very wide,) and let all wives, as well of the greater as of the lesser, give honour to their husbands.

Ephesians 5:9
For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and truth:

Ephesians 5:22
Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

1 Peter 3:1
In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives,

Colossians 3:17
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