¹⁹ So her husband, Joseph, being a righteous man,^(A) and not wanting to disgrace her publicly, decided to divorce her secretly.^(B)

³⁵ If they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands^(A) at home, since it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.

Wives and Husbands

²² Wives,^(A) submit^[a](B) to your husbands^(C) as to the Lord, ²³ because the husband is the head of the wife^(D) as Christ is the head^(E) of the church. He is the Savior of the body.^{(F) 24} Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives,^(G) just as Christ loved^(H) the church and gave himself^(I) for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing^[b] her with the washing of water by the word. ²⁷ He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.^{(J) 28} In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Christ in Your Home

¹⁸ Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.^{(A) 19} Husbands,^(B) love your wives^(C) and don’t be bitter^(D) toward them.

⁴ so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, ⁵ to be self-controlled, pure, workers at home, kind, and in submission^(A) to their husbands, so that God’s word^(B) will not be slandered.