# To the Philippians 4.2

- Author: [Polycarp of Smyrna](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/authors/polycarp-of-smyrna/)
- Work: [To the Philippians](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/) (*Epistula ad Philippenses*)
- Date: ca. 110–135 (disputed)
- Source: Lake, LCL 24:286–288; Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 282–301 (Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Also in: PG 5:1008d–1009a (found by text match)
- Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26
- Canonical URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/4/2/

Summary: Wives are to be taught to live in faith, love, and purity, to cherish their husbands, and to raise their children in the fear of God.

## Greek text

ἔπειτα καὶ τὰς γυναῖκας ἡμῶν ἐν τῇ δοθείσῃ αὐταῖς πίστει καὶ ἀγάπῃ καὶ ἁγνείᾳ στεργούσας τοὺς ἑαυτῶν ἄνδρας ἐν πάσῃ ἀληθείᾳ καὶ ἀγαπώσας πάντας ἐξ ἴσου ἐν πάσῃ ἐγκρατείᾳ, καὶ τὰ τέκνα παιδεύειν τὴν παιδείαν τοῦ φόβου τοῦ θεοῦ·

## English translation (Claude)

then also our wives, to walk in the faith given to them and in love and purity, cherishing their own husbands in all faithfulness and loving all others equally in all self-control, and to train their children in the discipline of the fear of God;

## Scripture references

- Titus 2:4–5: echo, low confidence

## Translation notes

- The construction continues from 4.1: “let us teach … our wives to walk …”
- “In all faithfulness” (ἐν πάσῃ ἀληθείᾳ): literally “in all truth”; here the truthfulness of fidelity in marriage.

## Citation (SBL)

Pol. Phil. 4.2 (PG 5:1008d–1009a; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/4/2/).