Parallel Verses
Common New Testament
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in 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
International Standard Version
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is appropriate for those who belong to the Lord.
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.
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, in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. 18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.
Ephesians 5:22-9
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord.
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.
1 Corinthians 14:34
the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be submissive, as even the law says.
Ephesians 5:3
But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
1 Timothy 2:12
I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.
Titus 2:4-5
so they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
1 Peter 3:1-6
You wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without a word by the behavior of their wives,