Ephesians 5:21–6:9

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

¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just. ²Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, ³that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest be long-lived on the earth. ⁴And ye fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord. ⁵Bondmen, obey masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ; ⁶not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul, ⁷serving with good will as to the Lord, and not to men; ⁸knowing that whatever good each shall do, this he shall receive of the Lord, whether bond or free. ⁹And, 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.