¹² To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord):^(A) If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. ¹³ And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. ¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.^(B)

¹⁵ But if the unbeliever leaves, let it be so. The brother or the sister is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace.^{(C) 16} How do you know, wife, whether you will save^(D) your husband?^(E) Or, how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

²² Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands^(A) as you do to the Lord.^{(B) 23} For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church,^(C) his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands^(D) in everything.

Instructions for Christian Households^(A)

¹⁸ Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands,^(B) as is fitting in the Lord.

⁹ I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,^{(A) 10} but with good deeds,^(B) appropriate for women who profess to worship God.

¹¹ A woman^[a] should learn in quietness and full submission.^{(C) 12} I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;^[b] she must be quiet.^{(D) 13} For Adam was formed first, then Eve.^{(E) 14} And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.^{(F) 15} But women^[c] will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love^(G) and holiness with propriety.