The Christian Household: Colossians 3:18-4:1

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Lydia heard the words read in the assembly and thought of her husband. Gaius had come to faith after her—reluctantly at first, suspicious of this new religion that had captured his wife. But he had listened, and eventually he had believed.

As is fitting in the Lord. Not the submission of Greco-Roman custom, where wives were property. In the Lord—transformed by Christ, shaped by the gospel.

Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.