Colossians 3:17-19

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¹⁷^(A)And whatsoever ye shall do, in word or deed, do all in the ^[a]Name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God even the Father by him.

¹⁸¶ ^(B)^[b]Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, as it is ^[c]comely in the Lord.

¹⁹^(C)^[d]Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter unto them.

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Footnotes

Colossians 3:17 Call upon the name of Christ, when you do it, or, do it to Christ’s praise and glory.
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.
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.
Colossians 3:19 He requireth of husbands, that they love their wives, and use them gently.

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