“ Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. ”
Wives, submit yourselves ... - Notes on the parallel passage in Ephesians 5:21-24 .
(10) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is (n) fit in the Lord. (10) He goes from precepts which concern the whole civil life of man, to precepts pertaining to every man's family...
Colossians 3:18 to Colossians 4:1 . Certain Duties Interpreted in Relation to Christ. Cf. Ephesians 5:22-33 *. Col. omits the simile of Christ and the Church. A reason is given why fathers...
submit. See Ephesians 5:22 . husbands. App-123. fit . See Ephesians 5:4 .
18 Wives, be subject. Now follow particular duties, as they are called, (456) which depend on the calling of individuals. In handling these it were superfluous to take up many words, inasmu...
DISCOURSE: 2189 THE RELATIVE DUTIES EXPLAINED Colossians 3:18 to Colossians 4:1 . Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be n...
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Wives, submit yourselves - Having done with general directions, the apostle comes to particular duties, which are commonly c...
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Unto your own husbands. 'Aleph (') A B C Delta G f g, Vulgate, omit х idiois ( G2398 )] "own," which crept in fr...
The Christian's Risen Life and the Duties it entails 1-4. Resurrection with Christ and the heavenly life. Paraphrase ] '(1) Seeing then that at your conversion you shared not Christ's death only...
(18) As it is fit in the Lord. — For the explanation of this special fitness “in the Lord,” i.e., in virtue of Christian unity, see the grand description of Ephesians 5:23-24 ; Ephesians 5:32-3...
Chapter 3 THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY Colossians 3:18-25 ; Colossians 4:1 (R.V.) This chapter deals with the Christian family, as made up of husband and wife, children, and servants. In the family,...
Home and Business Relations Colossians 3:18-25 ; Colossians 4:1 From these high flights into the eternal and divine, Paul turns to the daily duties of the home, and demands that in the simples...
The believer is to "seek the things... above." The word "seek" marks aspiration, desire, and passion. The things above are those of the empire of Christ. In order to seek these things the mind must b...
(18) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. (19) Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. (20) Children, obey your parents in all things: for thi...
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands ,.... The apostle proceeds from those duties which related to them as church members one towards another, for their mutual good and edification, and t...
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Ver. 18. Wives, submit yourselves ] Inferiors are ordered before superiors to teach them to do duty before they expect i...
Wives, submit yourselves Or be subject; to your own husbands Whether they be Christians or heathen. See on Ephesians 5:22 . As it is fit Both in regard of God's command, and the evil that woul...
CHANGING THE OLD FOR THE NEW (vs.1-11) We have seen some practical exhortations mingled with the doctrine of this epistle. Now this chapter begins what is mainly practical instruction based on th...
Relative Duties. A. D. 62. 18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit...
The apostle, entering upon an exhortation to relative duties, begins first with that which wives owe to their husbands to whom they are married, by reason this relation is the first in nature, and th...
‘Wives be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.' The position of wives as being ‘under their husbands' is not only taught but elsewhere stressed theologically in Scripture ( 1 C...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Colossians 3:18 . As it is fit in the Lord. —See Ephesians 5:22 . The feeling of propriety St. Paul emphasises here, and limits it “in the Lord.” Colossians 3:1...
Colossians 3:1-2 . If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth....
Colossians 3:1 . If ye then be risen with Christ, above the darkness and torpor of the present world, as in Colossians 2:20 , live in conformity to your hope, by seeking those things that are ab...
Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands. The Christian family 1. In the family, Christianity has signally displayed its power of refining, ennobling and sanctifying earthly relationships...
EXPOSITION Colossians 3:1-51 SECTION VII . THE TRUE CHRISTIAN LIFE . The apostle, having delivered his attack on the system of error inculcated at Colossae, now passes from the c...
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:3 ; 1 Corinthians 14:34 ; 1 Peter 3:1-6 ; 1 Timothy 2:12 ; Acts 5:29 ; Ephesians 5:22-24 ; Ephesians 5:3 ; Ephesians 5:33 ; Ephesians 6:1 ; Esther 1:20 ; Genesis 3:16 ; T...
Practical Christian Living Colossians 3:15-25 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Let the peace of God rule in your hearts. 2. The call of God to the Church, His Body. 3. Be ye thankful. 4. Let t...
Wives, submit — Or be subject to. It is properly a military term, alluding to that entire submission that soldiers pay to their general. Ephesians 5:22 , &c.