Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the
husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body,
of which he is the Savoir. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives
should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself
up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through
the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or
wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He
who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body,
but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we
are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and
mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a
profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and
the wife must respect her husband.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your
father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— “so that it
may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”
Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the
training and instruction of the Lord.
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity
of heart, just as you would obey Christ. Obey them not only to win their favor
when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from
your heart. Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people,
because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do,
whether they are slave or free.
And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since
you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is
no favoritism with him.
God knows that in the future pride will dominate the heart of the people,
so, He instruct apostle Paul to wrote this words not only for the people in his time
but also for the people of our time, it keeps reminding us, the true christian family values, we should follow what
apostle Paul wrote, actually, this is a command from the word of God, if we want to live
peacefully as a Good family in His presence.
(Source: Bible New International Version 2011 Ephesians 5:21-33, Ephesians 6:1-9)
