Ephesians 5:22–6:9

WIVES AND HUSBANDS

²²Wives,^l submit^Em to your husbandsⁿ as to the Lord, ²³because the husband is the head of the wife^o as Christ is the head^p of the church. He is the Savior of the body.^{q 24}Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. ²⁵Husbands, love your wives,^r just as Christ loved^s the church and gave himself^t for her ²⁶to make her holy, cleansing^F her with the washing of water by the word. ²⁷He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.^{u 28}In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, ³⁰since we are members of his body.^{G 31}For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,^v and the two will become one flesh.^{Hw 32}This mystery^x is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.

CHILDREN AND PARENTS

6Children, obey^y your parents in the Lord, because this is right. ²Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, ³so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land.^{ABz 4}Fathers, don’t stir up anger^aa in your children, but bring them up in the training^ab and instruction of the Lord.

SLAVES AND MASTERS

⁵Slaves, obey your human^C masters^ac with fear and trembling,^ad in the sincerity^ae of your heart, as you would Christ. ⁶Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will^af from your heart. ⁷Serve with a good attitude, as to the Lord and not to people,^{ag 8}knowing that whatever good each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord. ⁹And masters, treat your slaves the same way, without threatening^ah them, because you know that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism^ai with him.^aj