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Scripture Commentary article 2008-01-20

Gods Woman Is She Needy Of A Representative Priest Part 2

In part one, ( click here to read ) we discussed whether God created the woman as needed or needy. In this continuing discussion we ask whether God has ordained that a woman must have a priest in the home to represent her to God and God to her

1 Peter 3:10 1 Peter 3:11 1 Peter 3:7 Authority & Submission Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2008-01-04

From Bobbed Hair Bossy Wives And Women Preachers To Woman Be Free

I am very pleased that Stan Gundry has given me permission to post his story about how he changed his view from a staunch complementarian to an egalitarian. I would also request that if you have a story about your own journey from prejudice to freedom in Christ regarding women in ministry that you e

1 Corinthians 11:5 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 1 Corinthians 7:4 1 Corinthians 11 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2007-12-05

Women Teaching Mens Prejudice And Gods Glory

Many complementarians have been so used to hearing what women are not allowed to do in the body of Christ rather than what scripture says women should do as followers of Christ, that the focus has become automatically set to see restrictions when the subject of women in ministry is discussed. With t

1 Peter 2:15 1 Peter 3:10 1 Peter 3:10-12 Women in Leadership Complementarianism 1 Peter 3
Scripture Commentary article 2007-11-03

Mary As Gods Kind Of Woman

In conjunction with my new series on marriage started with my previous post and the question of whether a wife is to have a man take authority over her (as if her husband is required to rule her), click here to read an excellent blog article about the best example of a New Testament “God’s kind of w

Authority & Submission Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2007-08-29

Are Gods Gifts Segregated

Segregation is the policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups. The question for this post – are God’s gifts meant to be segregated into races, classes or ethnic groups

1 Corinthians 12:21 1 Corinthians 12:25 1 Corinthians 12:7 Spiritual Gifts
Scripture Commentary article 2007-07-21

Shaming The Head 3

Continuing our verse by verse through 1 Corinthians 11, we come to verse 6:

1 Corinthians 11:10 1 Corinthians 11:11 1 Corinthians 11:5 1 Corinthians 11 Authority & Submission
Scripture Commentary article 2007-07-12

Shaming The Head 2

Several posts back we talked about how Paul shows in 1 Corinthians 11 that the head covering shamed Christ. This post will discuss why a woman without her head covering shamed her head

1 Corinthians 11:3 1 Corinthians 11:4 1 Corinthians 11:7 1 Corinthians 11 Headship & Kephale
Scripture Commentary article 2007-07-09

Are Females Saved Just Like Males

Before we continue with our verse by verse through 1 Corinthians 11, I wanted to share a question that Jen had who watched my clip of “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free” DVD on YouTube. She said:

1 Peter 3:7 Ephesians 2:14-19 Ephesians 2:19 1 Corinthians 11 Women in Leadership Galatians 3:28
Scripture Commentary article 2007-05-27

1 Corinthians 113 And Head

In the last post I summarized the foundational points from chapter 10 that is necessary to the understanding of chapter 11. If you haven’t read it already, it can be read by clicking here

1 Corinthians 11:12 1 Corinthians 11:3 1 Corinthians 11:8 1 Corinthians 11 Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2007-01-28

Does Husband Of One Wife Disqualify Women From Being A Pastor

I was listening to the January 26, 2007 radio program online by Matt Slick of carm. org

1 Corinthians 7:24 1 Timothy 3:1 1 Timothy 3:12 Women in Leadership Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2006-11-15

What Women Really Want

In Genesis chapter 3 God speaks to Eve about her future. Unfortunately God’s words have been interpreted by male expositors in a way that makes God out to be a false prophet

Genesis 3:16 Genesis 3:23 Genesis 4:7 Genesis & Creation
Scripture Commentary article 2006-11-11

Husband As The Priest Of The Home

With the push towards defining biblical manhood and womanhood, often men are pressured into a leadership role where they feel overwhelmed by their responsibilities. Probably none more stressful than the title given to them as “Priest of the home”

1 Corinthians 6:3 1 Peter 2:5 1 Peter 2:9 Authority & Submission
Scripture Commentary tweet 2026-03-23

@Impactingright @MikeWingerii When he says that husbands are to love their wives

@Impactingright @MikeWingerii When he says that husbands are to love their wives as Christ loves the church he is not saying that only husbands love in this way. We are all called to emulate Christ.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2026-03-21

@amacarthur @ryancduff @MikeWingerii I don't mind you going fishing and replying later. But are you suggesting that husbands ruling over their wives is correct because of survivorship bias? I just don't understand how you are connecting the analogy a...

@amacarthur @ryancduff @MikeWingerii I don't mind you going fishing and replying later. But are you suggesting that husbands ruling over their wives is correct because of survivorship bias? I just don

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2026-03-21

@amacarthur @ryancduff @bwillems1000 @MikeWingerii Yes, there are women who beli

@amacarthur @ryancduff @bwillems1000 @MikeWingerii Yes, there are women who believe their husbands should rule over them and that women should be quiet. Maybe this is why they aren't here arguing thei

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2026-03-21

@TabeStorm @MikeWingerii So husbands are told to love their wives, where was it

@TabeStorm @MikeWingerii So husbands are told to love their wives, where was it that they are told to lead them? And do you think that we are not all supposed to love like Christ loves the church? Or

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-23

@jrdickens90 @Toneskeee If head means authority, why isn’t it used of any church

@jrdickens90 @Toneskeee If head means authority, why isn’t it used of any church leader, apostle or prophet? Why is it only used of husbands to their wives? In fact, it’s not even used of fathers to t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-23

@Nate_Dawg_64 @Toneskeee Yes, but all subject themselves to each other (Eph 5:21). Verse 24 can’t contradict mutual subjection by then saying it’s only one way for wives to husbands. Head means source not authority in NT usage. Christ is also God, a...

@Nate_Dawg_64 @Toneskeee Yes, but all subject themselves to each other (Eph 5:21). Verse 24 can’t contradict mutual subjection by then saying it’s only one way for wives to husbands. Head means sourc

Eph 5:21 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-23

@Nate_Dawg_64 @Toneskeee Head does not mean final authority. Notice how no pasto

@Nate_Dawg_64 @Toneskeee Head does not mean final authority. Notice how no pastor, apostle, elder, or prophet is called head of anything—only husbands. Why assume it means final authority?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-23

@Toneskeee @Sewakiryang Why do you think head means hierarchy? No leader, pastor

@Toneskeee @Sewakiryang Why do you think head means hierarchy? No leader, pastor, elder, apostle is ever called head—only husbands.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-20

@deafwatchman58 @smashbaals Same as husbands to wives, as a straightforward read

@deafwatchman58 @smashbaals Same as husbands to wives, as a straightforward reading of Eph 5:21 requires.

Eph 5:21 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-20

@deafwatchman58 @smashbaals I don’t know if you usually read the KJV, but the English wording here is misleading. The phrase “obedient to their own husbands” in Titus 2:5 (KJV) translates the Greek ὑποτασσομένας τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν (hypotassomenas ...

@deafwatchman58 @smashbaals I don’t know if you usually read the KJV, but the English wording here is misleading. The phrase “obedient to their own husbands” in Titus 2:5 (KJV) translates the Greek ὑ

Titus 2:5 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-20

@electri29693332 @SayvilleDavid @smashbaals There is only one head, not two. Hea

@electri29693332 @SayvilleDavid @smashbaals There is only one head, not two. Head doesn’t mean leader else a pastor, apostle, elder or deacon would be called head but that isn’t the case. Only husband

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-19

@SayvilleDavid @smashbaals It’s referring to all believers so yes, that includes

@SayvilleDavid @smashbaals It’s referring to all believers so yes, that includes husbands and wives. I go through this in more detail in the following thread. https://t.co/4OFLov6G50

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-19

@smashbaals And husbands to their wives (Eph 5:21). Smash is afraid to acknowle

@smashbaals And husbands to their wives (Eph 5:21). Smash is afraid to acknowledge it.

Eph 5:21 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-12

@LizzieMarbach Husbands are the head of their wife. Where does scripture say "...of the household"? Being head of his wife symbolically maps back to the first marriage where Eve came from the flesh and bone of Adam making Adam her 'source.' This defi...

@LizzieMarbach Husbands are the head of their wife. Where does scripture say "...of the household"? Being head of his wife symbolically maps back to the first marriage where Eve came from the flesh an

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-12

@sl4Yahweh Absolutely! If you interpret kephale (head) as boss then you will see

@sl4Yahweh Absolutely! If you interpret kephale (head) as boss then you will see command hierarchies everywhere. But the top off should be that no leader is called head—just husbands, and Jesus since

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-12

@sl4Yahweh Except you are describing a military and not a church. And “head” lan

@sl4Yahweh Except you are describing a military and not a church. And “head” language isn’t even used regarding the church, but only for husbands. Husbands and wives are one flesh unions not mini mili

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-10

@american_d1ce Yes wives submit to your husbands! Yes the church submits to Chri

@american_d1ce Yes wives submit to your husbands! Yes the church submits to Christ following the example Christ laid for us.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-10

@Wictor2501 @DarkVanTil @McMuffin11111 @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach That’s a very creative interpretation. 1. Where does the text say God was cursing the woman? 2. Where does the text say that Eve wanted the opposite of what men want? I thought your bel...

@Wictor2501 @DarkVanTil @McMuffin11111 @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach That’s a very creative interpretation. 1. Where does the text say God was cursing the woman? 2. Where does the text say that Eve wanted

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-07

@thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose What? I don’t think you know what you ar

@thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose What? I don’t think you know what you are talking about. Head doesn’t mean authority over or boss of someone. No one except husbands and Christ are called head.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-07

@thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose You sound like you are making things up.

@thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose You sound like you are making things up. BTW, if ‘head’ (kephale) means authority over, why is it never used of an apostle, prophet, elder, bishop, or any chu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-06

@thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose Why do you say ‘men’ only? The Bible does not stress that women cover up. 1Co 11:10 says that a wife should have authority over her own head to decide whether to cover or not. Wives should be in submission to...

@thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose Why do you say ‘men’ only? The Bible does not stress that women cover up. 1Co 11:10 says that a wife should have authority over her own head to decide whether

1Co 11:10 Eph 5:21 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-27

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC Yes, wives should be subject to their husbands. And husbands should also be to their wives (Eph 5:21). Being the head doesn’t mean being the boss of or authority over someone. If it means this, why is it o...

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC Yes, wives should be subject to their husbands. And husbands should also be to their wives (Eph 5:21). Being the head doesn’t mean being the boss of or aut

Eph 5:21 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@pjgurry Your argument is not even needed for your view because submit is elsewh

@pjgurry Your argument is not even needed for your view because submit is elsewhere explicitly use of wives to their husbands. But does it mean hierarchy and authority? That is the question. https://

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

Finally, Paul is not instituting a hierarchy, but calling all believers—includin

Finally, Paul is not instituting a hierarchy, but calling all believers—including husbands—to lives of self-giving, Spirit-filled mutuality. To miss this is to risk treating the gospel’s transforming

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

Similarly, when Paul writes that husbands are to love their wives as Christ love

Similarly, when Paul writes that husbands are to love their wives as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her, he is by no means excluding wives from the same calling since this is the call

Eph 5:1-2 Php 2:3-5 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst I have no resentment and sarcasm towards the verse. My view is that vs34-35 is a quote from the letter from the Corinthians and that Paul is refuting the silencing of women in v36. So the married women are as a...

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst I have no resentment and sarcasm towards the verse. My view is that vs34-35 is a quote from the letter from the Corinthians and that Paul is refuting the silenci

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-09

@autocorrect2_0 As is “wives love your husbands”… As is “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5) We are all to emulate Christ, not just the husband. We are all to love one another. We are all to “s...

@autocorrect2_0 As is “wives love your husbands”… As is “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5) We are all to emulate Christ, not just the husband.

Phil 2:5 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-09

@carol66944 @KennethOrtiz @BronWen727104 @Paula_333 But the passage says they sh

@carol66944 @KennethOrtiz @BronWen727104 @Paula_333 But the passage says they should ask their husbands at home, which is markedly different from “subject themselves to IF/THEN cues for silence in ver

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-09

@carol66944 @KennethOrtiz @BronWen727104 @Paula_333 So you think the law is: “If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church” (14:35)? Where does the law ...

@carol66944 @KennethOrtiz @BronWen727104 @Paula_333 So you think the law is: “If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

@BronWen727104 @Paula_333 The idea that they were under the authority of their h

@BronWen727104 @Paula_333 The idea that they were under the authority of their husbands is nowhere stated—not once!

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-05

Complementarians say God gave Adam authority over Eve—and by extension, husbands over wives. But Adam was the one who failed (Ro 5:12). He wasn’t deceived, yet didn’t guard the garden or his own flesh, Eve. If failed shepherds are removed, why woul...

Complementarians say God gave Adam authority over Eve—and by extension, husbands over wives. But Adam was the one who failed (Ro 5:12). He wasn’t deceived, yet didn’t guard the garden or his own fles

Ro 5:12 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-03

@LiamHarperBlack @autocorrect2_0 What was the point that Paul was making? If it wasn’t that husbands are the only ones to love their wives like Christ, then maybe wives are also not the only ones to submit to their husbands…but husbands also to their...

@LiamHarperBlack @autocorrect2_0 What was the point that Paul was making? If it wasn’t that husbands are the only ones to love their wives like Christ, then maybe wives are also not the only ones to s

Eph 5:21 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-03

@BronWen727104 @autocorrect2_0 Also, we are ALL to emulate Christ—wives included

@BronWen727104 @autocorrect2_0 Also, we are ALL to emulate Christ—wives included. Christ is the model for all believers. It’s not just the husbands that are to emulate Christ.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-03

@autocorrect2_0 “In the same way, you wives, be subject to your own husbands so

@autocorrect2_0 “In the same way, you wives, be subject to your own husbands so that *even if any of them are disobedient to the word,* they may be won over without a word by the behavior of their wiv

1Pe 3:1 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-30

@JoeAdrian256 @iheartJ37 @MikeWingerii No, you cannot interpret them any way you want. The context *always* determines meaning. But one must recognize that establishing a doctrine on a hapax logomena is not a good idea. In this case, the English tran...

@JoeAdrian256 @iheartJ37 @MikeWingerii No, you cannot interpret them any way you want. The context *always* determines meaning. But one must recognize that establishing a doctrine on a hapax logomena

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-20

@Kamalamaison @iamtheguardians @tmsilverman @legaltweetz Yes, wives are subject to their own husbands in everything. However, given that all are to be subject reciprocally to one another out of a fear of Christ (Eph 5:21), then whatever Paul means in...

@Kamalamaison @iamtheguardians @tmsilverman @legaltweetz Yes, wives are subject to their own husbands in everything. However, given that all are to be subject reciprocally to one another out of a fear

Eph 5:1-2 Eph 5:21 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-17

@harmon00000 “so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands,

@harmon00000 “so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children” (Tit 2:4) I guess they don't have to love their husbands? Does this command apply to wives? “

Jn 15:17 Tit 2:4 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@ncksmith I don’t see women “mimicking the church” as if men aren’t also the bride of Christ—they are. Paul calls husbands to imitate Christ and wives to submit as they do to Christ, but this isn’t rigid role coding. Paul isn’t saying husbands don’t ...

@ncksmith I don’t see women “mimicking the church” as if men aren’t also the bride of Christ—they are. Paul calls husbands to imitate Christ and wives to submit as they do to Christ, but this isn’t ri

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