Colossians 3:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Colossians 3:18 —

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Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Titus 2:4-5
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, …
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
1 Peter 3:1-6
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; …
Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-25)

The apostle concludes the chapter with exhortations to relative duties, as before in the epistle to the Ephesians. The epistles which are most taken up in displaying the glory of divine grace, and magnifying the Lord Jesus, are the most particular and distinct in pressing the duties of the several relations. We must never separate the privileges and duties of the gospel religion. I. He begins with…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. unto your own husbands--The oldest manuscripts omit “own,” which crept in from Ep 5:22. as it is fit in the Lord--Greek, “was fit,” implying that there was at Colosse some degree of failure in fulfilling this duty, “as it was your duty to have done as disciples of the Lord.”