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  • Colossians 3:18
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 18 You wives, be in subjection to your husbands,+ as it is becoming in the Lord.

  • Colossians 3:18
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 18 Αἱ The γυναῖκες, women, ὑποτάσσεσθε be YOU subjecting selves τοῖς to the ἀνδράσιν, male persons, ὡς as ἀνῆκεν it was becoming ἐν in κυρίῳ. Lord.

  • Colossians 3:18
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 18 YOU wives, be in subjection+ to [your] husbands, as it is becoming in [the] Lord.

  • Colossians 3:18
    The Bible in Living English
    • 18 Wives, be in such subordination to your husbands as is the proper thing in the Lord.

  • Colossians 3:18
    American Standard Version
    • 18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

  • Colossians 3:18
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 18 Ye wives! be submitting yourselves unto your husbands as is becoming in the Lord;

  • Colossians 3:18
    King James Version
    • 18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

  • Colossians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2023
    • 3:18 tp 138-139

  • Colossians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 3:18 w80 9/1 24; g78 10/22 19-20; gh 163; w74 118; tp73 141; li 265; w63 445; g63 12/8 15; w62 204, 463, 685; w51 278

  • Colossians
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 3:18

      True Peace, pp. 138-139

      The Watchtower,

      9/1/1980, pp. 24-25

      2/15/1974, p. 118

      7/15/1963, pp. 444-446

      11/15/1962, pp. 684-685

      8/1/1962, pp. 462-464

      4/1/1962, pp. 203-205

      5/1/1951, pp. 277-278

      Awake!,

      10/22/1978, pp. 19-20

      Good News, p. 163

      Peace and Security, pp. 141-142

  • Colossians Study Notes—Chapter 3
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 3:18

      be in subjection: Paul here speaks of the Christian wife’s voluntary submission to her husband’s God-given authority. The Christian husband, in turn, is to follow Christ’s example in exercising headship; he also willingly subjects himself to Christ’s authority.​—1Co 11:3; Eph 5:22, 23; see study note on Eph 5:21.

      as it is becoming in the Lord: Paul here uses an expression for “becoming” that may also be rendered “proper” or “fitting.” Paul adds in the Lord, reminding the Christian wife that by fulfilling her Scriptural role, she is pleasing her Lord, Jesus Christ, who set a perfect example of humble subjection to his Father.​—Eph 5:22; see study note on Php 2:6.

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