¹⁹ So her husband Joseph, being a righteous man,^(A) and not wanting to disgrace her publicly, decided to divorce her secretly.^(B)

³⁵ And if they want to learn something, they should ask their own husbands^(A) at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church meeting.

Wives and Husbands

²² Wives,^(A) submit^[a](B) to your own husbands^(C) as to the Lord, ²³ for the husband is the head of the wife^(D) as Christ is the head^(E) of the church. He is the Savior of the body.^{(F) 24} Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives,^(G) just as Christ loved^(H) the church and gave Himself^(I) for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing^[b] her with the washing of water by the word. ²⁷ He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.^{(J) 28} In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Christ in Your Home

⁴ so they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, ⁵ to be self-controlled, pure, homemakers, kind, and submissive^(A) to their husbands, so that God’s message^(B) will not be slandered.