Colossians 3:18–19
A word to each: wives, submit; husbands, love and don't be harsh
Study it word by word18Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
19Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
In its context
16Let the word of the Messiah dwell in you richly, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.
17And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
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20Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.
21Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not lose heart.
Its words in the original
- γυναῖκεςgynaikes· woman, wife
Woman; with a possessive, wife.
- ὑποτάσσεσθεhypotassesthe· subject, submit
Put under, subject; in the passive or middle, be subject, submit oneself, obey.
- ἀνδράσινandrasin· man, husband
Man, adult male; with a possessive, "husband".
- ἀνῆκενanēken· be fitting
Be fitting, be what is proper and due.
- κυρίῳkyriōi· Lord, lord
Lord, master, owner. Said of God, the Lord; in Old Testament quotations it stands for the name YHWH.
- ἀγαπᾶτεagapate· love
Love: to seek the good of the other, even of someone who does not deserve it.
- πικραίνεσθεpikrainesthe· embitter, be harsh
Make bitter; be harsh and hard with another.