Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Wives, be ye submissive to your own husbands as is proper in Lord.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is appropriate for those who belong to the 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
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Colossians 3:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mutual Responsibilities In Christian Relationships
17 And all things, anything whatever ye may do in word or in deed, do all in the name of Lord Jesus, expressing thanks to the God and Father through him. 18 Wives, be ye submissive to your own husbands as is proper in Lord. 19 Husbands, love the wives and do not be made bitter against them.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
Ephesians 5:22-9
Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy childbearing, in pain thou shall bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Esther 1:20
And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.
Acts 5:29
And Peter and the apostles having answered, they said, We must obey God rather than men.
1 Corinthians 14:34
As in all the churches of the sanctified, let the women keep silent in the churches. For it is not permitted for them to speak, but to be subordinate, as the law also says.
Ephesians 5:3
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified,
1 Timothy 2:12
But I do not allow a woman to teach, nor to act autonomously from a man, but to be in quietness.
Titus 2:4-5
so that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
1 Peter 3:1-6
Likewise the wives, being subordinate to their own husbands, so that even if any are disobedient to the word, they will be gained without a word by the behavior of the wives,