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.

⁴ Then they can urge the younger women^(A) to love their husbands and children, ⁵ to be self-controlled^(B) and pure, to be busy at home,^(C) to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands,^(D) so that no one will malign the word of God.^(E)