Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is appropriate for those who belong to the Lord.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Holman Bible
A Conservative Version
Wives, be ye submissive to your own husbands as is proper in Lord.
American Standard Version
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Amplified
Wives, be
An Understandable Version
You wives should submit to your husbands, as this is proper in [the fellowship of] the Lord.
Anderson New Testament
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it is becoming in the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.
Common New Testament
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Dames, be submissive to your husbands, as becomes christians.
Darby Translation
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Godbey New Testament
Ye wives, submit to your husbands as is becoming in the Lord.
Goodspeed New Testament
You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, for that is your duty as Christians.
John Wesley New Testament
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands (as is fit) in the Lord.
Julia Smith Translation
Women, place yourselves under your own husbands, as was permitted in the Lord.
King James 2000
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fitting in the Lord.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Modern King James verseion
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as is becoming in the Lord.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wives, submit your own selves unto your own husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.
Moffatt New Testament
Wives, be subject to your husbands; that is your proper duty in the Lord.
Montgomery New Testament
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting for Christians.
NET Bible
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
New Heart English Bible
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Noyes New Testament
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Sawyer New Testament
Wives, be subject to the husbands, as is fit in the Lord.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye wives! be submitting yourselves unto your husbands, as is becoming in the Lord;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Wives be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Wives, submit to your husbands, as befits those who belong to the Lord.
Webster
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Weymouth New Testament
Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Williams New Testament
You married women must continue to live in subordination to your husbands, for this is your Christian duty.
World English Bible
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Worrell New Testament
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as it was fitting in the Lord.
Worsley New Testament
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as becometh you in the Lord:
Youngs Literal Translation
The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;
Themes
Home » Husbands and wives » Duties of wives
Marriage » The duties of a wife
Social duties » In relation to food in relation to speech » Wives' duties
Topics
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References
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Colossians 3:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mutual Responsibilities In Christian Relationships
17 And whatever you do, whether by speech or action, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. 18 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is appropriate for those who belong to the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:3
Now I want you to realize that the Messiah is the head of every man, and man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of the Messiah.
Ephesians 5:22-9
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord.
Genesis 3:16
He told the woman, "I'll greatly increase the pain of your labor during childbirth. It will be painful for you to bear children, "since your trust is turning toward your husband, and he will dominate you."
Esther 1:20
When the edict of the king that he issues is heard throughout his kingdom for it's vast then all the women will give honor to their husbands, from the greatest to the least important."
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men!
1 Corinthians 14:34
As in all the churches of the saints, the women must keep silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak out, but must place themselves in submission, as the oral law also says.
Ephesians 5:3
Do not let sexual sin, impurity of any kind, or greed even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints.
1 Timothy 2:12
Moreover, in the area of teaching, I am not allowing a woman to instigate conflict toward a man. Instead, she is to remain calm.
Titus 2:4-5
They should encourage the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,
1 Peter 3:1-6
In a similar way, you wives must submit yourselves to your husbands so that, even if some of them refuse to obey the word, they may be won over without a word through your conduct as wives