Colossians 3:18

In 9 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

The wives: be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the LORD;

YLT

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

DBY

Wives, be subject to [your] husbands, as is fitting in [the] Lord.

DRC

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

GNV

Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

Αἱ γυναῖκες, ὑποτάσσεσθε τοῖς ἀνδράσιν, ὡς ἀνῆκεν ἐν κυρίῳ.

RP2018

Αἱ γυναῖκες, ὑποτάσσεσθε τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν, ὡς ἀνῆκεν ἐν κυρίῳ.

TR-Boyd

Αἱ γυναῖκες, ὑποτάσσεσθε τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν, ὡς ἀνῆκεν ἐν Κυρίῳ.

SCR1894

αι γυναικες υποτασσεσθε τοις ιδιοις ανδρασιν ως ανηκεν εν κυριω

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• Ephesians 5:22–6:9Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should…
• Titus 2:4–5In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children, 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…
• 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 Peter 3:1–6Wives, 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 when they see your pure and reverent…
• 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.”
• 1 Timothy 2:12I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; she is to remain quiet.
• 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.”
• 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.
• Acts 5:29But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
• 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.

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