Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands
Home “ Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do 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 submit to their husbands in everything. ” [Ephesians 5:21-24] The head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man P aul cites three specific areas in the Christian household where submission is the will of God: Wives should submit to their own husbands. Children should submit to their parents. Servants should submit to their masters. The fact that all believers are one in Christ Jesus does not mean that earthly relationships are abolished. We must still respect the various forms of authority and government which God has instituted. Every well-ordered society rests on two supporting pillars—authority and submission. There mus...