Ephesians 5:22–6:9

²²The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, ²³because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body, ²⁴but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, ²⁶that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying, ²⁷that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished; ²⁸so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife—himself he doth love; ²⁹for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord—the assembly, ³⁰because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones; ³¹‘for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be—the two—for one flesh;’ ³²this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly; ³³but ye also, every one in particular—let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife—that she may reverence the husband.

Chapter 6

¹The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; ²honour thy father and mother, ³which is the first command with a promise, ‘That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.’ ⁴And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord. ⁵The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ; ⁶not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul, ⁷with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men, ⁸having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman. ⁹And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.