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;

²⁹ for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

³⁰ because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

⁴ The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

⁵ doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

⁶ rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

⁷ all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

⁸ The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

¹⁰ and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

¹¹ but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

¹² And to the rest I speak -- not the Lord -- if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;

²⁶ be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

²⁷ neither give place to the devil;

²⁸ whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

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;

²⁵ Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

⁶ so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

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

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.

⁴ honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

³ nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --

⁴ each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

⁵ For, let this mind be in you that `is' also in Christ Jesus,

¹⁴ and above all these things, `have' love, which is a bond of the perfection,

¹⁵ and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

¹² Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

¹³ forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you -- so also ye;

¹⁴ and above all these things, `have' love, which is a bond of the perfection,

¹⁵ see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

²² `Whoso' hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

⁸ and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

³ to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

⁴ the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

⁵ Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

⁶ and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

³² and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

²⁹ Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;