Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.

Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God.

For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,

Show hospitality to one another without complaining.

Give a shepherd’s care to God’s flock among you, exercising oversight not merely as a duty but willingly under God’s direction, not for shameful profit but eagerly.