Submission to the Authorities

13 Let every person ^(A)be subject to the governing authorities. For ^(B)there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

^7 (A)Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.

^21 (A)submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Wives and Husbands

^22 (B)Wives, ^(C)submit to your own husbands, ^(D)as to the Lord.

²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit ^(A)in everything to their husbands.

Children and Parents

6 ^(A)Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

⁴ Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, ^(A)but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Bondservants and Masters

^5 (B)Bondservants,^[a] obey your earthly masters^[b] with fear and trembling, ^(C)with a sincere heart, ^(D)as you would Christ,

⁹ Masters, do the same to them, ^(A)and stop your threatening, knowing that ^(B)he who is both their Master^[a] and yours is in heaven, and that ^(C)there is no partiality with him.

^17 (A)Honor everyone. ^(B)Love the brotherhood. ^(C)Fear God. Honor the emperor.