³³ Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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

²⁰ When the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.

⁹ Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

² seeing your pure behavior in fear.

³ Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

⁴ but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

⁵ For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God, also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

⁷ You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

²² Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

²⁸ Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

³¹ Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever.