The New Testament Household Codes Close studies of the Haustafeln — wives and husbands, slaves and masters — and the debates they carry

Three passages from the early Christian household codes (Haustafeln), each studied the same way: the text itself, who wrote it and when, the Greco-Roman world it speaks into, how it functions inside its letter, the contested Greek terms, the major interpretive traditions presented side by side, the wider corpus it belongs to, and a synthesis — with footnotes and a full bibliography.

• Ephesians 5:18–33 · Pauline Epistles

  The Spirit-filled life, the household code, and the marriage of Christ and the Church

  Mutual submission, kephalē (“head”), and the complementarian–egalitarian debate over marriage.

• 1 Peter 3:7–9 · General Epistles

  Husbands and the “weaker vessel,” joint heirs of grace, and the summons to bless

  Honor between equal heirs, the “weaker vessel,” and an ethic of blessing under suffering.

• Colossians 3:22–24 · Pauline Epistles

  Slaves, masters, and working “as for the Lord” in the Greco-Roman household

  Greco-Roman slavery, the Onesimus connection, and the accommodation-vs-trajectory hermeneutic.