⁸ If her husband, hearing of it, says nothing to her at the time, then the oaths she made and the undertakings she gave will have force.

¹⁶ To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.

⁴ The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

³⁴ Let women keep quiet in the churches: for it is not right for them to be talking; but let them be under control, as it says in the law.

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.