And when her master and mistress saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,

Let the husband give his wife her due, and likewise the wife her husband. The wife is not mistress of her own person,

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.

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

to be mistress of themselves, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands ??otherwise it will be a scandal to the gospel.

The elder to the chosen mistress in truth; (and not I only, but also all and to her children, whom I love they having known the truth;)

And now I entreat thee, mistress, not as writing a new command, but what we had from the beginning, that we should love one another.