Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Ye wives! be submitting yourselves unto your husbands, as is becoming 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.
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.
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 whatsoever ye may be doing, in word, or in work, all things, do in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks unto the Divine Father through him: - 18 Ye wives! be submitting yourselves unto your husbands, as is becoming in the Lord; 19 Ye husbands! be loving your wives, and be not embittered against them;
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I wish 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 the Christ, is, God.
Ephesians 5:22-9
Ye wives, unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord,
Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman, he said, I will, increase, thy pain of pregnancy, In pain, shalt thou year children, - Yet, unto thy husband, shall be thy hinging, Though, he, rule over thee.
Esther 1:20
When the edict of the king which he shall make, is published throughout all his kingdom, for, great, it is, then, all wives, will give honour unto their lords, both great and small.
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said - It is needful to be yielding obedience unto God rather than unto men: -
1 Corinthians 14:34
As for the women, in the assemblies, let them be silent, for it is not permitted them to be speaking; but let them be in submission, - even as, the law, saith.
Ephesians 5:3
But, fornication, and all impurity, or covetousness, let it not be named among you - even as becometh saints;
1 Timothy 2:12
But, teaching - unto a woman, I do not permit, nor yet to have authority over a man, - but to be in quietness;
Titus 2:4-5
That they may constrain the young women to be, lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,
1 Peter 3:1-6
In like manner, ye wives, - submitting yourselves unto your own husbands; in order that, if any are not yielding unto the word, through their wives behaviour, they may, without the word, be won,