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NASB | Colossians 3:18 ¶ Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Colossians 3:18 ¶ Wives, be subject to your husbands [out of respect for their position as protector, and their accountability to God], as is proper and fitting in the Lord. |
Bible Question:
My husband loves to use this verse a lot. But I'm having this feeling that it doesn't apply to every situation he tries to use it for. Does "Wives be subject" mean I have no Freewill to do anything and that I am under his total control for every situation we come across. I believe that this verse means that Women are to submit WILLING to their husbands, but we are also God's created and thus have a freewill to explore our options. It's not an absolute dictatoriship. Any help? |
Bible Answer: You are to "Love" for your husband with the same intensity the Church Loves Christ, and the balance to that statement is that your husband is to "Love" you with the same intensity that Christ Loves the Church. www.biblegateway.com The Message Ephesians 5 21Out of respect for Christ, be courteously reverent to one another. 22-24Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ. The husband provides leadership to his wife the way Christ does to his church, not by domineering but by cherishing. So just as the church submits to Christ as he exercises such leadership, wives should likewise submit to their husbands. 25-28Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ's love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They're really doing themselves a favor—since they're already "one" in marriage. 29-33No one abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it. That's how Christ treats us, the church, since we are part of his body. And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife. No longer two, they become "one flesh." This is a huge mystery, and I don't pretend to understand it all. What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church. And this provides a good picture of how each husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in loving her, and how each wife is to honor her husband. |
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