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.

Likewise also their wives ¹  must be dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in every respect.

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

Jesus ¹  said to them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, ²  but from the beginning it was not this way.

And I say this, brothers and sisters: ¹  The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

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

When ¹  our time was over, ²  we left and went on our way. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied ³  us outside of the city. After ⁴  kneeling down on the beach and praying, ⁵ 

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 

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