Cross references
Colossians 3:18
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Colossians 3:18 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 9 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ephesians 5:22–6:9 (27 votes) and Titus 2:4–5 (17 votes). 11 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Genesis 3 to 1 Peter 3.
Which verses does Colossians 3:18 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Ephesians 5:22–6:927 votes
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. …
- Titus 2:4–517 votes
In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
- 1 Corinthians 11:316 votes
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
- 1 Peter 3:1–613 votes
Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives when they see your pure and reverent demeanor. …
- Genesis 3:1611 votes
To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
- 1 Timothy 2:128 votes
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; she is to remain quiet.
- Esther 1:207 votes
The edict the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom—and so all women, from the least to the greatest, will honor their husbands.”
- 1 Corinthians 14:345 votes
Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
- Acts 5:294 votes
But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
- Ephesians 5:30 votes
But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
Which verses point to Colossians 3:18?
The 10 strongest of 11.