¹⁰ For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."

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.

¹³ Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

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

¹⁸ Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

⁸ But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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

²³ And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

² The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

³ not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

⁴ one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

⁵ (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

⁴ You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.