Colossians 3:18

Amplified Bible

Family Relations

¹⁸Wives, 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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Footnotes

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.

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