Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

Likewise also their wives<n id="1" /> must be dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in every respect.

I<n id="1" /> persecuted this Way<n id="2" /> even to the point of death,<n id="3" /> tying up<n id="4" /> both men and women and putting<n id="5" /> them in prison,

Jesus<n id="1" /> said to them, &#8220;Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts,<n id="2" /> but from the beginning it was not this way.

But Saul was trying to destroy<n id="1" /> the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off<n id="2" /> both men and women and put them in prison.<n id="3" />p>

And I say this, brothers and sisters:<n id="1" /> The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

Husbands, love your<n id="1" /> wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

In the same way<n id="1" /> husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Likewise<n id="1" /> the women are to dress<n id="2" /> in suitable apparel, with modesty and self-control.<n id="3" /> Their adornment must not be<n id="4" /> with braided hair and gold or pearls or expensive clothing,

and requested letters from him to the synagogues<n id="1" /> in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way,<n id="2" /> either men or women, he could bring them as prisoners<n id="3" /> to Jerusalem.<n id="4" />

But the Jews incited<n id="1" /> the God-fearing women of high social standing and the prominent men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out<n id="2" /> of their region.