Ephesians 5:22–6:9

Wives and Husbands

^22aWives, ^bbe subject to your own husbands, ^cas to the Lord.

²³For ^athe husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the ^bhead of the church, He Himself ^cbeing the Savior of the body.

²⁴But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

^25aHusbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and ^bgave Himself up for her,

^26aso that He might sanctify her, having ^bcleansed her by the ^cwashing of water with ^dthe word,

²⁷that He might ^apresent to Himself the church ¹in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she would be ^bholy and blameless.

²⁸So husbands ought also to ^alove their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

²⁹for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

³⁰because we are ^amembers of His ^bbody.

^31aFor this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

³²This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

³³Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to ^alove his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she ^1brespects her husband.

CHAPTER 6

Children and Parents

^1aChildren, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

^2ahonor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),

³so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long in the land.

^4aFathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but ^bbring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

^5aSlaves, be obedient to those who are your ¹masters according to the flesh, with ^bfear and trembling, in the ²integrity of your heart, ^cas to Christ;

^6anot ¹by way of eyeservice, as ^bmen-pleasers, but as ^cslaves of Christ, ^ddoing the will of God from the ²heart,

⁷serving with good will ^aas to the Lord, and not to men,

^8aknowing that ^bwhatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, ^cwhether slave or free.

⁹And masters, do the same things to them, ^agiving up threatening, knowing that ^bboth their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is ^cno partiality with Him.