Marido e Mulher

1 Married women, in the same way, be submissive to your husbands, so that even if some of them disbelieve the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over by the daily life of their wives, after watching your daily life–

2 so full of reverence, and so blameless!

22 Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;

23 because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.

24 And just as the Church submits to Christ, so also married women should be entirely submissive to their husbands.

10 But to those already married my instructions are –yet not mine, but the Lord's– that a wife is not to leave her husband;

11 or if she has already left him, let her either remain as she is or be reconciled to him; and that a husband is not to send away his wife.

1 I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.

2 But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

3 Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.

4 A married woman is not mistress of her own person: her husband has certain rights. In the same way a married man is not master of his own person: his wife has certain rights.

5 Do not refuse one another, unless perhaps it is just for a time and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer and may then associate again; lest the Adversary begin to tempt you because of your deficiency in self-control.

7 Married men, in the same way, live with your wives with a clear recognition of the fact that they are weaker than you. Yet, since you are heirs with them of God's free gift of Life, treat them with honour; so that your prayers may not be hindered.

15 If, however, the unbeliever is determined to leave, let him or her do so. Under such circumstances the Christian man or woman is no slave; God has called us to live lives of peace.

16 For what assurance have you, O woman, as to whether you will save your husband? Or what assurance have you, O man, as to whether you will save your wife?

33 Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.

18 Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

19 Married men, be affectionate to your wives, and do not treat them harshly.

2 A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.

25 Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;

26 in order to make her holy, cleansing her with the baptismal water by the word,

27 that He might present the Church to Himself a glorious bride, without spot or wrinkle or any other defect, but to be holy and unblemished.

28 So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.

29 For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church;

4 »Have you not read,« He replied, »that He who made them made them' from the beginning male and female,

5 and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be one'?

6 Thus they are no longer two, but one'! What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.«