Colossians 3:18
New King James Version
The Christian Home(A)
18 (B)Wives, submit to your own husbands, (C)as is fitting in the Lord.
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Colossians 3:18
New American Standard Bible
Family Relations
18 (A)Wives, (B)be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
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Colossians 3:18
Amplified Bible
Family Relations
18 Wives, be [a]subject to your husbands [out of respect for their position as protector, and their accountability to God], as is proper and [b]fitting in the Lord.
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- Colossians 3:18 The wife is to submit voluntarily to her husband (not to men in general); not as inferior to him, nor in violation of her Christian ethics, but honoring her husband’s responsibilities and authority as head of the household.
- Colossians 3:18 I.e. not in conflict with Scripture.
Colossians 3:18
King James Version
18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
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Colossians 3:18
New International Version
Instructions for Christian Households(A)
18 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands,(B) as is fitting in the Lord.
Ephesians 5:22
New King James Version
Marriage—Christ and the Church(A)
22 Wives, (B)submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
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Ephesians 5:22
New American Standard Bible
Marriage like Christ and the Church
22 (A)Wives, (B)subject yourselves to your own husbands, (C)as to the Lord.
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Ephesians 5:22
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Marriage Like Christ and the Church
22 Wives, be subject [a]to your own husbands, as [a service] to the Lord.
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- Ephesians 5:22 The wife to her husband, not to men in general; not as inferior to him, nor in violation of her Christian ethics, but honoring her husband as protector and head of the home, respecting the responsibility of his position and his accountability to God.
Ephesians 5:22
King James Version
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
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Ephesians 5:22
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Ephesians 5:24
New King James Version
24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands (A)in everything.
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Ephesians 5:24
New American Standard Bible
24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
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Ephesians 5:24
Amplified Bible
24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives should be subject to their husbands in everything [respecting both their position as protector and their responsibility to God as head of the house].
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Ephesians 5:24
King James Version
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
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Ephesians 5:24
New International Version
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands(A) in everything.
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