²² Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands^(A) as you do to the Lord.^(B)

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

³³ However, each one of you also must love his wife^(A) as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Instructions for Christian Households^(A)

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

¹² I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;^[a] she must be quiet.^(A)

3 Wives, in the same way submit yourselves^(A) to your own husbands^(B) so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over^(C) without words by the behavior of their wives,