¹⁰ On the seventh day, when the king was feeling good from the wine,^(A) Ahasuerus commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona,^(B) Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas, the seven eunuchs^(C) who personally served him, ¹¹ to bring Queen Vashti before him with her royal crown. He wanted to show off her beauty to the people and the officials, because she was very beautiful.^{(D) 12} But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command that was delivered by his eunuchs. The king became furious and his anger burned within him.^(E)

Wives and Husbands

²² Wives,^(A) submit^[a](B) to your own husbands^(C) as to the Lord,

²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.

³³ To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.

Christ in Your Home

¹² I do not allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; instead, she is to be silent.

Wives and Husbands

3 In the same way, wives,^(A) submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message,^(B) they may be won over^[a](C) without a message by the way their wives live^(D)