005:023 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. 005:024 And just as the Church submits to Christ, so also married women should be entirely submissive to their husbands. 005:025 Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her; 005:026 in order to make her holy, cleansing her with the baptismal water by the word, 005:027 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. 005:028 So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself. 005:029 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; 005:030 because we are, as it were, parts of His Body. 005:031 "For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one." 005:032 That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth concerning Christ and the Church. 005:033 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. 006:001 Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, for it is a duty. 006:002 "Honour your father and your mother"--this is the first Commandment which has a promise added to it-- 006:003 "so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth." 006:004 And you, fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up tenderly with true Christian training and advice. 006:005 Slaves, be obedient to your earthly masters, with respect and eager anxiety to please and with simplicity of motive as if you were obeying Christ. 006:006 Let it not be in acts of eye-service as if you had but to please men, but as Christ's bondservants who are doing God's will from the heart. 006:007 With right good will, be faithful to your duty as service rendered to the Lord and not to man. 006:008 You well know that whatever right thing any one does, he will receive a requital for it from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a free man. 006:009 And you masters, act towards your slaves on the same principles, and refrain from threats. For you know that in Heaven there is One who is your Master as well as theirs, and that merely earthly distinctions there are none with Him. 006:010 In conclusion, strengthen yourselves in the Lord and in the power which His supreme might imparts.