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

Wives, submit to your ¹  husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

In this way ¹  they will train ²  the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your ¹  wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with ¹  now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”

If they want to find out about something, they should ask their husbands at home, because it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church. ¹ 

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

In the same way ¹  husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

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 

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 

Deacons must be husbands of one wife ¹  and good managers of their children and their own households.

But Naomi replied, “Go back home, my daughters! There is no reason for you to return to Judah with me! ¹  I am no longer capable of giving birth to sons who might become your husbands! ² 

For the matter concerning the queen will spread to all the women, leading them to treat their husbands with contempt, saying, ‘When King Ahasuerus gave orders to bring Queen Vashti into his presence, she would not come.’

Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners ¹  and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers. ² 

And let the king’s decision which he will enact be disseminated ¹  throughout all his kingdom, vast though it is. ²  Then all the women will give honor to their husbands, from the most prominent to the lowly.”

If she made the vow in her husband’s house or put herself under obligation with an oath,

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan ¹  who live on Mount Samaria! You ²  oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your ³  husbands, “Bring us more to drink!” ⁴ 

for jealousy kindles ¹  a husband’s ²  rage, and he will not show mercy ³  when he takes revenge.