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

19 (B)[c]Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter unto them.

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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.
  3. Colossians 3:19 He requireth of husbands, that they love their wives, and use them gently.

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