21  submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ. 22  Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord, 23  for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly. He is Saviour of the body. 24  But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything. 25  Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it, 26  in order that he might sanctify it, purifying it by the washing of water by the word, 27  that he might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless. 28  So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself. 29  For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly: 30  for we are members of his body; we are of his flesh, and of his bones. 31  Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. 32  This mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly. 33  But ye also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife I speak that she may fear the husband.

Chapter 6

1  Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just. 2  Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, 3  that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest be long-lived on the earth. 4  And ye fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.