5:22 Wives, submit ⁹  to your husbands as to the Lord, 5:23 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. 5:24 But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 5:25 Husbands, love your ¹⁰  wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her 5:26 to sanctify her by cleansing her ¹¹  with the washing of the water by the word, 5:27 so that he ¹²  may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. ¹³  5:28 In the same way ¹⁴  husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 5:29 For no one has ever hated his own body ¹⁵  but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church, 5:30 for we are members of his body. ¹⁶  5:31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become ¹⁷  one flesh. ¹⁸  5:32 This mystery is great – but I am actually ¹⁹  speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 5:33 Nevertheless, ²⁰  each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, ²¹  and the wife must ²²  respect ²³  her husband.

6:1 Children, ²⁴  obey your parents in the Lord ²⁵  for this is right. 6:2 “Honor your father and mother,” ²⁶  which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely, 6:3 “that it may go ²⁷  well with you and that you will live ²⁸  a long time on the earth.” ²⁹ 

6:4 Fathers, ³⁰  do not provoke your children to anger, ³¹  but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

6:5 Slaves, ³²  obey your human masters ³³  with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart as to Christ, 6:6 not like those who do their work only when someone is watching ³⁴  – as people-pleasers – but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart. ³⁵  6:7 Obey ³⁶  with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord ³⁷  and not people, 6:8 because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this ³⁸  will be rewarded by the Lord.

6:9 Masters, ³⁹  treat your slaves ⁴⁰  the same way, ⁴¹  giving up the use of threats, ⁴²  because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, ⁴³  and there is no favoritism with him.