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Colossians 3:18
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Colossians 3:18
18Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
18Wiues, submit your selues vnto your owne husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
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Colossians 3:18
To yield oneself under the authority, order, or relation named in the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Male spouses; men joined to wives in marriage.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Suitable, proper, or prepared for a purpose; as a verb, to suit or be suitable.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study3But 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.
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Open the full verse study4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
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Open the full verse study1LIKEWISE, 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;
2While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
3Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
4But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
5For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
6Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
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Open the full verse study16Unto 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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Open the full verse study12But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
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Open the full verse study20And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
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Open the full verse study34Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
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Open the full verse study29¶ Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
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Open the full verse study3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
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