Craig

Gengwall @215,
“Craig – I’m not sure you can get directly to “serve” from the Greek for “submit” but you are on the right track.
Would you mind expanding on this if you have time? Are there better words for submit that would accurately convey its meaning?
One thing I find helpful in understanding a passage is to try and say it in my own words, like an expanded paraphrase. If anyone here would like to do this for the “difficult passages” I would really find it helpful and I think many others would too.
Gengwall, you also said @215 “I would note that the Eph 5 verses to husbands certainly contain the idea of service to the wife, wouldn’t you agree? Christ does serve us as well as we serving Him so the biblical concept is not lost.”
I do agree that the husband is to “serve” his wife in sacrificial love and that this is an example of mutual submission from v21.