Colossians 3:18 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

English ASV

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

English Amplified

Wives, be subject to your husbands [subordinate and adapt yourselves to them], as is right and fitting and your proper duty in the Lord.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Wives, be subject to your husbands [subordinate and adapt yourselves to them], as is right and fitting and your proper duty in the Lord.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

Wives, be subject to [your] husbands, as is fitting in [the] Lord.

English EASY 2024

Wives, obey your husbands. That is the right thing to do, because you belong to the Lord.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Wives, be willing to serve your husbands. This is the right thing to do in following the Lord.

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, for that is what you should do as Christians.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Wives, place yourselves under your husbands' authority. This is appropriate behavior for the Lord's people.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

English KJV 1611

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

English LSB

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is fitting in the Lord.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Wives, be subordinate to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Wives, follow the lead of your husbands. That's what the Lord wants you to do.

English NIV

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

English NKJ 1982

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

English NLT

You wives must submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

Let every wife be supportive and tenderly devoted to her husband, for this is a beautiful illustration of our devotion to Christ.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

You wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, for that is what the Lord has planned for you.

English Tyndale 1537

Wives submit your own selves unto your own husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.

Colossians 3:18 — Compare Translations