²⁵ Husbands, love your wives,^(A) just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her^(B)

³ Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers^(A) or addicted to much wine,^(B) but to teach what is good. ⁴ Then they can urge the younger women^(C) to love their husbands and children,