Colossians 3:18-21

Rules for Christian Households

¹⁸ _u Wives, submit to your husbands, as _v is fitting in the Lord. ¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and _w do not be harsh with them. ²⁰ Children, obey your parents _x in everything, for this pleases the Lord. ²¹ Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

1. Cross References
   Colossians 3:18 - 4:1
   Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
   Ephesians 5:22 - 6:9
   Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
   
2. Cross References
   Ephesians 5:4
   Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
   Philemon 1:8
   Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required.
   
3. Cross References
   Ephesians 4:31
   Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
   
4. Cross References
   Ephesians 5:24
   Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
   Titus 2:9
   Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative.