¹⁷ At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

⁸ and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

¹⁹ honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.'

¹² and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

³³ but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

¹⁷ Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

² and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

¹⁴ House and wealth `are' the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah `is' an understanding wife.

¹⁰ A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies `is' her price.

⁹ The two `are' better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.

¹⁰ for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.

²⁸ so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

¹ A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold -- good grace.

¹⁰ For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but wo to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!

¹² `All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

¹⁴ Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking `is there' to righteousness and lawlessness?

²⁵ The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed `it' with the bathing of the water in the saying,

²⁷ that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

²² The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

²³ because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ `is' head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

²⁴ but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also `are' the wives to their own husbands in everything.

¹⁸ The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

¹⁹ the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

²⁰ the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

¹² And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

⁵ And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,

⁶ and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,

⁷ and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

⁸ for these things being to you and abounding, do make `you' neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,