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

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

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

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

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

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

– children not born ¹  by human parents ²  or by human desire ³  or a husband’s ⁴  decision, ⁵  but by God.

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

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

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

“‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, ¹  when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

Now Naomi ¹  had a relative ²  on her husband’s side of the family named Boaz. He was a wealthy, prominent man from the clan of Elimelech. ³ 

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 

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 

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

But if you ¹  have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….” ² 

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.’