Wives and Husbands

^22 (A)Wives, ^(B)submit to your own husbands, ^(C)as to the Lord. ²³ For ^(D)the husband is the head of the wife even as ^(E)Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is ^(F)himself its Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit ^(G)in everything to their husbands.

³³ However, ^(A)let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she ^(B)respects her husband.

¹⁶ To the woman he said,

^7 (A)If you do well, will you not be accepted?^[a] And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. ^(B)Its desire is contrary to^[b] you, but you must rule over it.”

Rules for Christian Households

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

⁴ and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, ⁵ to be self-controlled, ^(A)pure, ^(B)working at home, kind, and ^(C)submissive to their own husbands, ^(D)that the word of God may not be reviled.

Wives and Husbands

3 Likewise, wives, ^(A)be subject to your own husbands, so that ^(B)even if some do not obey the word, ^(C)they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

^28 (A)There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave^[a] nor free, ^(B)there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

^12 (A)I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. ^13 (B)For Adam was formed first, ^(C)then Eve;