¹⁰ For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

⁷ Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

¹³ Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

⁸ But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

²³ And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

² A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

³ Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

⁴ One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

⁵ (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

⁴ And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.