Colossians 3:18
Modern Translations
New International Version
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

New Living Translation
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord.

English Standard Version
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Berean Study Bible
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

New American Standard Bible
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

NASB 1995
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

NASB 1977
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Amplified Bible
Wives, be subject to your husbands [out of respect for their position as protector, and their accountability to God], as is proper and fitting in the Lord.

Christian Standard Bible
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
A wife must put her husband first. This is her duty as a follower of the Lord.

Good News Translation
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, for that is what you should do as Christians.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Wives, place yourselves under your husbands' authority. This is appropriate behavior for the Lord's people.

International Standard Version
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is appropriate for those who belong to the Lord.

NET Bible
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

New King James Version
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

King James 2000 Bible
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fitting in the Lord.

New Heart English Bible
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

World English Bible
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

American King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

American Standard Version
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

A Faithful Version
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as it is fitting in the Lord.

Darby Bible Translation
Wives, be subject to [your] husbands, as is fitting in [the] Lord.

English Revised Version
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Webster's Bible Translation
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Wiues, submit your selues vnto your owne husbandes, as it is comely in the Lorde.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Ye wyues, submytte youre selues vnto youre hussbandes, as it is comly in the LORDE.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Wyves submit youre selves vnto youre awne husbandes as it is comly in the Lorde.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The wives: be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the LORD;

Berean Literal Bible
Wives, submit yourselves to the husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Young's Literal Translation
The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

Smith's Literal Translation
Women, place yourselves under your own husbands, as was permitted in the Lord.

Literal Emphasis Translation
Wives, be arranged under your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as that is right in The Messiah.

Lamsa Bible
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is appropriate in Christ.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it is becoming in the Lord.

Godbey New Testament
Ye wives, submit to your husbands as is becoming in the Lord.

Haweis New Testament
Wives be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord.

Mace New Testament
Dames, be submissive to your husbands, as becomes christians.

Weymouth New Testament
Married women, be submissive 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:
















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