Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Women, place yourselves under your own husbands, as was permitted 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.
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 all whatever you do in word and in work, all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. 18 Women, place yourselves under your own husbands, as was permitted in the Lord. 19 Men, love ye the wives, and be not embittered against them.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:3
And I will you to know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman the man; and the head of Christ God.
Ephesians 5:22-9
Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, Multiplying, I will multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and to thy husband thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
Esther 1:20
And the decree of the king which he shall make being heard in all his kingdom, (for it is great,) and all the women shall give honor to their husbands, to the great and even to the small.
Acts 5:29
And Peter having answered, and the sent, said, We must obey God rather than men.
1 Corinthians 14:34
Let your women be silent in the churches: for it has not been committed to them to speak; but to be subjected, as also says the law.
Ephesians 5:3
And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;
1 Timothy 2:12
And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care.
Titus 2:4-5
That they render the young women discreet, to be lovers of the husband, lovers of the children,
1 Peter 3:1-6
Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word;