...defining male headship and female submission. "Wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 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."20 Women at Shawmut River believed this passage meant...

...nowhere implies that she is to submit to the abuse of her husband. Ephesians 5: 23, 28, & 29 ... "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. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as...

...Ephesians 5:22—24 (below) dozens of times. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 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. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should...

...3:16-17). The doctrine of the household is also implicit in Ephesians 5:22-33, where Paul writes that "the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church" (Eph. 5:23). To say that Christ is the head of the church is also to affirm that he is the...

...nowhere implies that she is to submit to the abuse of her husband. Ephesians 5: 23, 28, & 29 ... "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. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as...

...business or a general's authority over his troops but Christ's authority over His Church: "For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body. . . . Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for...

...of His heavenly glory and power When He brings us in at that glorious hour! Ephesians 5:23 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. Every Beat of My Heart Every beat of my heart is because...

...of His heavenly glory and power When He brings us in at that glorious hour! Ephesians 5:23 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. Every Beat of My Heart Every beat of my heart is because...

..."'For the husband is the head of the wife'" — I went on, continuing to cite Ephesians 5 — "'even as Christ is the head of the church. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing!" "If you defy our pastor, then...

...submit your selues vnto your husbands, as vnto the Lord. For the husband is the wiues head, euen as Christ is the head of the Church . . . Therefore as the Church is in subiection to Christ, euen so let the wiues be to their husbands in euery thing' (Geneva Bible)....