Therefore be very careful how you live – not as unwise but as wise,

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

not like those who do their work only when someone is watching – as people-pleasers – but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart.

for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light –

Obey with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord and not people,

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body.

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

for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may be able to speak boldly as I ought to speak.

Now this secret was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

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

Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart as to Christ,

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…