in vv. 19–21), including the following imperative “Husbands, love (ἀγαπᾶτε, agapate) your wives” (v. 25; cf. O’Brien, 411). Note that Paul does not urge wives to obey their husbands as if they were children or slaves (see 6:1, 5) to their husbands—even if some of the wives may be young girls in their mid-teens with husbands quite a bit older than themselves.1126 In all of life people are in submission to other people and have authority over others. Both women and men are to be in submission to