Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionFor the queen’s conduct will become known to all the women, and so they will despise their husbands and say, ‘King Xerxes commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she would not come.’New Living TranslationWomen everywhere will...
Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment...
The depictions of life in the apartments, the details of the women’s lives, the absent husbands, the affairs, the way daughter’s follow mother’s examples, the witnessing of each other’s lives, the door porter who sees and knows all, the desire for privacy and impossibility of it are...
" meaning that the women are to be subordinate to men. He orders wives to submit themselves to their husbands "in every thing" as though they were gods. Once again, we see that women are expected to defer to men. To make perfectly sure that we would know that he's describing a hiera...
To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” 1 Peter 3:1-6 Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refus...
(a principle of primogeniture). The order of creation establishes male headship in marriage (cf.1 Cor. 11:3;Eph. 5:23), and a woman teaching and exercising authority overturns this order. After all, how can a wife submit to her husband if she is telling him what to do when she ...
I’m sure that many of us have heard or been raised on Ephesians 5:22 –“Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.” The problem comes when we take Scripture ...
Paul's first point in our passage seems to be that the wife should submit to her husband, since the man was formed first. His second point seems to be that Adam wasn't as open to deception as Eve. Eve was deceived by the snake, but Adam was persuaded by his wife. In all fairness...
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands ...
[15]Husband and wife were partners and were supposed to reflect Adam and Eve.[15]Marriage in elite families was also used as an abuse of power and violence.[16]Even though wives had to submit to their husbands’ authority, wives still had rights in their marriages. McDougall concurs ...