- Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
- And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in spirit,
- Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and psalming with your heart to the Lord,
- Giving thanks at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to our God and Father,
- Being subject to one another in the fear of Christ:
in Ethical Relationships
1. Between Wife and Husband
- Wives, be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord;
- For a husband is head of the wife as also Christ is Head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the Body.
- But as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be subject to their husbands in everything.
- Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her
- That He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of the water in the word,
- That He might present the church to Himself glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that she would be holy and without blemish.
- In the same way the husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his own wife loves himself.
- For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the church,
- Because we are members of His Body.
- For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.
- This mystery is great, but I speak with regard to Christ and the church.
- Nevertheless you also, each one of you, in the same way love your own wife as yourself; and the wife should fear her husband.
