Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

Likewise also their wives must be dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in every respect.

I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

Jesus said to them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.

But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

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

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

Likewise the women are to dress in suitable apparel, with modesty and self-control. Their adornment must not be with braided hair and gold or pearls or expensive clothing,

and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, either men or women, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

But the Jews incited the God-fearing women of high social standing and the prominent men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their region.