While they behold your chaste conversation {coupled} with fear.

And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.

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

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Husbands, love {your} wives, and be not bitter against them.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected {us}, and we gave {them} reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Then Bathsheba bowed with {her} face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.

Likewise, ye wives, {be} in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

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

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with {them} according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Nevertheless, {to avoid} fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but {they are commanded} to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

Husbands, love {your} wives, and be not bitter against them.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so {let} the wives {be} to their own husbands in every thing.

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

{To be} discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute {is due}; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.

See that none render evil for evil unto any {man}; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all {men}.

While they behold your chaste conversation {coupled} with fear.

For {this} deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

Then Bathsheba bowed with {her} face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.

And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See {thou do it} not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.