¹⁷ A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.

⁸ If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.

¹⁹ Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

¹² And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;

³³ But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

¹⁷ Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.

² But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

¹⁴ House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

¹⁰ Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.

⁹ Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.

¹⁰ Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

²⁸ Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

¹ A good name is more to be desired than great wealth, and to be respected is better than silver and gold.

¹⁰ And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper.

¹² All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.

¹⁴ Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?

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

²⁶ So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,

²⁷ And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

²² Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

²⁴ And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.

¹⁸ Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.

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

²⁰ Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

¹² And two attacked by one would be safe, and three cords twisted together are not quickly broken.

⁵ So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,

⁶ And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,

⁷ And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

⁸ For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.