Colossians 3:18
1599 Geneva Bible
18 ¶ (A)[a]Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, as it is [b]comely in the Lord.
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- 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.
Titus 2:5
1599 Geneva Bible
5 That they be temperate, chaste, [a]keeping at home, good and (A)subject unto their husbands, that the word of God be not evil spoken of.
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- Titus 2:5 No gadders up and down.
1 Peter 3:1
1599 Geneva Bible
3 1 That Christian women should not contemn their husbands, though they be infidels. 6 He bringeth in examples of godly Women. 8 General exhortations, 14 patiently to bear persecutions, 15 and boldly to yield a reason of their faith. 18 Christ’s example.
1 Likewise (A)[a]let the wives be subject to their husbands, [b]that even they which obey not the word, may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives.
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- 1 Peter 3:1 In the third place he setteth forth the wives’ duty to their husbands, commanding them to be obedient.
- 1 Peter 3:1 He speaketh namely of them which had husbands that were not Christians, which ought so much the more be subject to their husbands, that by their honest and chaste conversation they may give them to the Lord.
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