you were refraining by mutual consent from carnal intercourse, as his wife you should have been subject to your husband in other things according to the marriage bond, especially as you are both members of the Body of Christ.2 And, indeed, if you, a believer, had had an unbelieving husband,3 you ought to have conducted yourself with a submissive demeanor that you might win him for the Lord, as the Apostles advise. I say nothing of the fact that I know you undertook this state of continence, contrary