Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh to them (Col. 3:19).

Reasoning

From the above-described teaching of St. Chrysostom, it should be reasoned that husbands who leave their wives without their will also sin and are subject to the same punishment if their wives begin to commit adultery.

CHILDREN TO THEIR PARENTS

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is what justice requires" (Ephesians 6:1).

Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord (Col. 3:20).

St. Chrysostom on this

A son who does not honor his parents, common to all, God, nature, laws, and the common life of all of us is an enemy and an adversary (Discourse 4 on the Book of Genesis).

The children of their parents should only listen to what is not contrary to piety; and when they demand that which is contrary to piety, one should not obey them (Discourse 35 on the Evangelist Matthew).

PARENTS TO CHILDREN

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the teaching and instruction of the Lord (Ephesians 6:4).

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, lest they lose heart (Col. 3:21).

St. Chrysostom on this

If parents diligently brought up their children, there would be no need for laws, courts, and executions (Discourse on Widows).

Parents will be punished not only for their sins, but also for their children, if they are not brought up in piety (Discourse 5 against the blasphemers of the monastic life).

Parents who neglect to bring up their children in a Christian way are more lawless than child murderers, for child murderers separate the body from the soul, and they plunge both soul and body into hell fire; According to the natural law, bodily death cannot be avoided, but eternal death would be possible if the negligence of the parents were not to blame for it. In addition, bodily death, when it comes for all, can immediately abolish it; but nothing can restore spiritual destruction (Discourse 5 against the detractors of monastic life).

The greatest sin is neglect of children, it reaches the very height of malice (The Book Against the Persecutors of Monastic Life).

SLAVES TO MASTERS