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. 5  Bondmen, obey masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ; 6  not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul, 7  serving with good will as to the Lord, and not to men; 8  knowing that whatever good each shall do, this he shall receive of the Lord, whether bond or free. 9  And, masters, do the same things towards them, giving up threatening, knowing that both their and your Master is in heaven, and there is no acceptance of persons with him.