18 (A)[a]Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, as it is [b]comely in the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 3:18 He goeth from precepts which concern the whole civil life of man, to precepts pertaining to every man’s family, and requireth of wives, subjection in the Lord.
  2. Colossians 3:18 For those wives do not well, that do not set God in Christ before them in their love, but this Philosophy knoweth not.

Instructions for Christian Households(A)

18 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands,(B) as is fitting in the Lord.

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22 (A)[a]Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, [b]as unto the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 5:22 Now he descendeth to a family, dividing orderly all the parts of a family. And he saith that the duty of wives consisteth herein, to be obedient to their husbands.
  2. Ephesians 5:22 The first argument, for they cannot be disobedient to their husbands, but they must resist God also, who is the author of this subjection.

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands(A) as you do to the Lord.(B)

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