Ephesians 5:22

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

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

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

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

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.

Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

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

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.

Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Yahweh, who has not abandoned his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”

The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. Yahweh will forgive her.

“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

He said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich.

Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even hear me that way, says the Lord.”

Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

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

with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not to men,

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

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

Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

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?

Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

He won’t regard the gods of his fathers, or the desire of women, or regard any god; for he will magnify himself above all.

but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

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

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