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Piper says:
“A woman’s submission to her husband is rooted in the word of God, calling her to be—for the Lord’s sake, for the Lord’s sake—submissive to him. Which means she always has a higher allegiance, namely to Christ.”

Given the context of abuse, this is telling because I understand him to be saying, “A woman’s submission to her husband is rooted in the word of God”; therefore, for “the Lord’s sake, God has called her to be submissive to him” even in abuse.

I do NOT believe the witness of God’s goodness and holiness or whatever “for the Lord’s sake” means, is dependent upon a woman submitting to a husband’s abuse.