Wifehood

As Christ is the Head of the Church

For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.[Ephesians 5:23] So why is it that God has called one-half of all the people in the world to go against their rebellious natures and put themselves under the authority of the other half of the…

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Wifehood

“Submit” to Your Own Husbands

Now, the question of a dictionary-like definition of submission. We could just look it up in an actual dictionary, but that would just tell us what G. & C. Merriam and Noah Webster think it means, not what God says it means! The word here is hupotasso (plus some funny characters I can’t get to show up). Hupo is a…

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Wifehood

“Submit “As to the Lord.”

Sidenote: It has been suggested in a comment that I might define “submission” before I continue. So I’m going to do that in the next two posts. First, in this post, I want to define the depth of submission (how much do we submit?) and in the next post, I’ll be more grammatical about it and look at the meaning…

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