III. Responsibilities in the Home and at Work........ 5:22-6:9
Eph 5:22
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.Eph 5:23
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.Eph 5:24
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.Eph 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;Eph 5:26
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,Eph 5:27
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.Eph 5:28
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.Eph 5:29
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:Eph 5:30
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.Eph 5:31
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.Eph 5:32
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.Eph 5:33
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.Eph 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.Eph 6:2
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)Eph 6:3
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.Eph 6:4
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.Eph 6:5
Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;Eph 6:6
Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;Eph 6:7
With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:Eph 6:8
Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.Eph 6:9
And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.