Rules for Christian Households

Colossians 3

18 h Wives, submit to your own husbands, i as is fitting in the Lord. 19 j Husbands, love your wives and do not be k bitter toward them. 20 l Children, obey your parents m in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord. 21 n Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. 22 o Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God. 23 p And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, 24 q knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; r for 1 you serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and s there is no partiality.

Colossians 4

1 Masters, a give your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

  1. Cross References
    1 Peter 3:1
    Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives.
  2. Cross References
    Colossians 3:18
    Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
    Colossians 4:1
    Masters, give your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
    Ephesians 5:22
    Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
    Ephesians 6:9
    And you, masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.
  3. Cross References
    Ephesians 5:25
    Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her.
    1 Peter 3:7
    Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
  4. Cross References
    Ephesians 4:31
    Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.
  5. Cross References
    Ephesians 6:1
    Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
  6. Cross References
    Ephesians 5:24
    Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
  7. Cross References
    Ephesians 6:4
    And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
  8. Cross References
    Ephesians 6:5
    Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ.
    1 Timothy 6:1
    Let as many bondservants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and His doctrine may not be blasphemed.
    Titus 2:9
    Exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back.
    1 Peter 2:18
    Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.
  9. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 9:10
    Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.
  10. Cross References
    Ephesians 6:8
    Knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.
  11. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 7:22
    For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord's freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is Christ's slave.
  12. Cross References
    Romans 2:11
    For there is no partiality with God.
  13. Cross References
    Ephesians 6:9
    And you, masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.
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