Ephesians 5:22–6:4

²²Wives, yield to your husbands, as you do to the Lord, ²³because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. And he is the Savior of the body, which is the church. ²⁴As the church yields to Christ, so you wives should yield to your husbands in everything.

²⁵Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it ²⁶to make it belong to God. Christ used the word to make the church clean by washing it with water. ²⁷He died so that he could give the church to himself like a bride in all her beauty. He died so that the church could be pure and without fault, with no evil or sin or any other wrong thing in it. ²⁸In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they love their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹No one ever hates his own body, but feeds and takes care of it. And that is what Christ does for the church, ³⁰because we are parts of his body. ³¹The Scripture says, “So a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one body.” ^{n 32}That secret is very important—I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³But each one of you must love his wife as he loves himself, and a wife must respect her husband.

Children and Parents

6Children, obey your parents as the Lord wants, because this is the right thing to do. ²The command says, “Honor your father and mother.” ⁿ This is the first command that has a promise with it—³“Then everything will be well with you, and you will have a long life on the earth.” ⁿ

⁴Fathers, do not make your children angry, but raise them with the training and teaching of the Lord.