For it is written, “Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.”

Wives and Husbands

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Rules for Christian Households

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband,

if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Wives and Husbands

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

For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.