Ephesians 5:21-24 -- instructions to wives including headship analogy
Mike teaches through the major passage on marriage.
Ephesians 5:21-24 contains three elements supporting submission as a general rule: (1) wives told to submit with no cultural qualifiers, (2) husband is the head of the wife as Christ is head of the church -- a teaching unique to Paul, not common Roman culture, and (3) the analogy that as the church submits to Christ, wives submit to husbands. The deep word study on 'head' (kephale) was covered in video 8.
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@jools6691 @BBisthebomb75 @AiG Wedding vows that suggest the wife is to obey her husband as if she was a child or a slave are not Biblical. Ephesians 5:21-24 doesn’t say obey. V21 says we are to subject ourselves to one another in the fear of Chris...
@jools6691 @BBisthebomb75 @AiG Wedding vows that suggest the wife is to obey her husband as if she was a child or a slave are not Biblical. Ephesians 5:21-24 doesn’t say obey. V21 says we are to sub
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Wives Submit? | Ephesians 5:21-24 - Conrad Macintyre
Verse-by-verse teaching through Ephesians 5:21-24. Examines mutual submission and the meaning of "wives submit" in its literary and historical context.
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