¹ Wives, submit ²  to your husbands as to the Lord,

who gave himself as a ransom for all, revealing God’s purpose at his appointed time. ¹ 

Slaves ¹  are to be subject to their own masters in everything, ²  to do what is wanted and not talk back,

He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.

to be self-controlled, ¹  pure, fulfilling their duties at home, ²  kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message ³  of God may not be discredited. ⁴ 

For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,

– whose appearing ¹  the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, will reveal at the right time.

But now in his own time ¹  he has made his message evident through the preaching I was entrusted with according to the command of God our Savior.

In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, ¹  even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live, ² 

Who ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?