What has gone so terribly wrong in Ephesus that Paul feels compelled to write the longest marriage code in the New Testament? First Peter only has seven verses about marriage. Colossians only has two. Titus only has two. Why does Ephesians have thirteen? This paper, which presents the argument of my book (Artemis, Eve, and the Image of God [Pickwick Publications, 2024]) examines the adverse influence of Artemis upon the Ephesian believers’ thought world, why Paul raises up Eve and Adam as the example of loving marriage, what Paul thought the image of God looked like in the believer, and why some Ephesian believers thought differently. It argues that Paul’s primary purpose behind his Ephesians marriage code has nothing to do with gender hierarchy but everything to do with implementing evangelistic new kingdom values in a resistant first-century world, and that Artemis was getting in the way.