Matthew Poole and continuators on Colossians 3:18

18. Wives, submit your selves unto your own husbands , as it is fit in the Lord u.

The Apostle entring upon an exhortation to Relative duties, begins first with that which Wives owe to their Husbands to whom they are Married, by reason this Relation is the first in nature, and the fountain whence the rest do flow, Gen. 2.22. Psal. 127.3. & 128.3. Prov. 5.15, 16. That which he requires is self-submission in every thing, see Eph. 5.22. expressing a subjection with reverence, v. 24.33. 1 Pet. 3.1. The God of Order made the Woman inferiour, Gen. 2.8, 22. & 3.16. 1 Cor. 11.7, 9. 1 Tim. 2.13. Tit. 2.5. yet her submission is not to be servile, as that of an Hand-maid, but conjugal, as of a meet Companion.

Suitable to God's institution in a becoming manner, agreeable to the mind of Christ, Act. 5.29. 1 Cor. 7.39. Eph. 6.1, 5.