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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-14

@HebronC777 @AJMxya @smashbaals And Paul never told husbands to respect their wives in Eph 5, yet you don’t deny that they ought to. Why is that? That God describes specific outcomes that are different for Adam and Eve may have more to do with Eve b...

@HebronC777 @AJMxya @smashbaals And Paul never told husbands to respect their wives in Eph 5, yet you don’t deny that they ought to. Why is that? That God describes specific outcomes that are differe

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-14

@HebronC777 @AJMxya @smashbaals Eph 5 doesn’t say that husbands should respect t

@HebronC777 @AJMxya @smashbaals Eph 5 doesn’t say that husbands should respect their wives. Why not?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-14

@HebronC777 @AJMxya @smashbaals Seriously? No He doesn’t. He doesn’t say “women

@HebronC777 @AJMxya @smashbaals Seriously? No He doesn’t. He doesn’t say “women don’t need respect” or “husbands don’t need to respect their wives” or “women are excluded from emulating Christ” despit

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-07

@0xV1RTUE @twigsally @JaydaBF @SimonJohn165066 We are to submit to one another i

@0xV1RTUE @twigsally @JaydaBF @SimonJohn165066 We are to submit to one another in the fear of Christ showing this has nothing to do with authority or hierarchy (Eph 5:21). Husbands and wives do so in

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-28

RT @ryanschatz: @IemSparticus @harmonizedgrace Many highlight the fact that wive

RT @ryanschatz: @IemSparticus @harmonizedgrace Many highlight the fact that wives are to submit and respect, and that husbands are to love.…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-28

@IemSparticus @harmonizedgrace If we consider master/slave dynamics, slaves obey their masters as long as they are being watched and often with minimal effort. If wives see themselves as house slaves, they may not be serving their husbands out of gen...

@IemSparticus @harmonizedgrace If we consider master/slave dynamics, slaves obey their masters as long as they are being watched and often with minimal effort. If wives see themselves as house slaves,

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-28

@IemSparticus @harmonizedgrace Many highlight the fact that wives are to submit and respect, and that husbands are to love. But in no way can a reasonable person assert that husbands are not also to respect their wives or that wives are not also to l...

@IemSparticus @harmonizedgrace Many highlight the fact that wives are to submit and respect, and that husbands are to love. But in no way can a reasonable person assert that husbands are not also to r

@HebronC777 @AJMxya @smashbaals And Paul never told husbands to respect their wives in Eph 5, yet you don’t deny that they ought to. Why is that? That God describes specific outcomes that are different for Adam and Eve may have more to do with Eve b...

@HebronC777 @AJMxya @smashbaals Eph 5 doesn’t say that husbands should respect t

@HebronC777 @AJMxya @smashbaals Seriously? No He doesn’t. He doesn’t say “women

@0xV1RTUE @twigsally @JaydaBF @SimonJohn165066 We are to submit to one another i

RT @ryanschatz: @IemSparticus @harmonizedgrace Many highlight the fact that wive

@IemSparticus @harmonizedgrace If we consider master/slave dynamics, slaves obey their masters as long as they are being watched and often with minimal effort. If wives see themselves as house slaves, they may not be serving their husbands out of gen...

@IemSparticus @harmonizedgrace Many highlight the fact that wives are to submit and respect, and that husbands are to love. But in no way can a reasonable person assert that husbands are not also to respect their wives or that wives are not also to l...

@IemSparticus @harmonizedgrace Your claim that submission here flows from "lesser to greater" authority (wives to husbands, children to parents, slaves to masters) is inconsistent with Paul's pattern. The instruction to husbands to love their wives (...

@IemSparticus @harmonizedgrace Egalitarians argue against male headship b/c ‘headship’ = ruler/authority today, but Paul doesn’t use it that way for church or M/F rels. I cited 1Co 7:4 as the only positive mention of authority in M/F rels, besides 1...

@PatrickHen1776 @mtnhousewife @Jleerockwell I didn’t say that men are not leader

@NewestPapa @mtnhousewife @Matthew56193629 “…both wives and husbands are instruc

@harmonizedgrace @mtnhousewife I’m not trying to turn wives against their husbands! I think you are confusing me with some kind of feminist you have seen around here. Again, I am a ‘mutualist’—meaning both mutually laying down their rights to serve o...

@bekahlee91 @godlywomanhood What they miss is that husbands are also to submit t

@LRopa21333 @kenalexander77 @RealDavidReece My take of what the Bible says is that there is a willing mutual submission, not that there is no submission. In the first century, wives’ submission was out of duty, not love like they did for Christ. The ...

@PatrickHen1776 @AJMxya @harmonizedgrace Yes, in everything…as they do to Christ. Evidently there was something going on at that time between husbands and wives that needed addressing and the best I surmise is women were treated as house slaves and t...

@PatrickHen1776 @AJMxya @harmonizedgrace ✅ husband is head of his wife ✅ wife is to submit to him (like she does to Christ and not like those in the culture) ❌ head doesn’t mean leader or the one in authority. ❌ husbands are also to submit to their w...

@PatrickHen1776 @AJMxya @harmonizedgrace 3000 years? I think not because the the apostles didn’t restrict women and think that only wives submit. Further, many godly men and women have been wrong in the past…all the more if they are following what t...

@WayfarerAbdul @harmonizedgrace The issue with wives is that most see themselves as property or house slaves and so they serve out of duty rather than like they do to Christ—out of love. Paul wants to elevate their relationship to be like how they se...

@WayfarerAbdul @harmonizedgrace Col 3:18-19, Tit 2:5 and Eph 5:22-24 all say the

@Tomboy_Dragon23 @harmonizedgrace Oh I totally agree that Eph 5:23-24?&amp;/ to

@harmonizedgrace I see. So husbands shouldn't be rude, but wives have an extra e

@Tailfeathers_WA @Antifaucist722 @dalepartridge Ge 3:16 is not imperative or a command but a prophecy of the fall’s result. Eve was deceived, Adam stayed silent, and ate the fruit she gave. He would hold a grudge and mistreat her by ruling over her. ...

@DirtBoyFarms @ruthmperry @iheartJ37 @harmonizedgrace If Biblical submission is service and service is submission, then how is it that all are not mutually submissive including husbands to wives in addition to wives to husbands? Do you believe the hu...

@RealDavidReece Next, Tit 2:4-5 calls wives to "love their husbands" showing the reciprocal of "husbands love your wives" (Eph 5:25). Also, "workers at home" not to restrict how they work but that they are not to be idle, gossips and busybodies (1Ti ...

@RealDavidReece "Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord" (Col 3:18). The phrase “as is fitting in the Lord” reframes submission not as blind obedience but as a voluntary, Christlike humility grounded in love and respect. It re...

@RealDavidReece Ah @RealDavidReece, one can quote passages without their context, but can you explain them in context? Ok, let's start with Eph 5:22-23👇 1/ Paul deliberately used hypotassō (submission) for husbands &amp; wives, not hypakouō (obedie...

@King_Brody @pastherandie Brody, are you assuming ‘head’ (literally the top of the body—it’s not a complex word) means authority or commander? Where does this idea come from? Is it context? Why isn’t ‘authority’ or ‘commander’ ever used for Jesus ove...

@rightresponsem Umm… civil magistrates are able to put people in jail and punish

With Christ, our service flows from love, not obligation. Paul’s challenge to wi

For wives treated as a subclass, like property or slaves, submission can feel li

@harmonizedgrace Complementarians are not saying their wives are to obey them? C

@crusadepepe Husbands are not commanded to coerce their wives! And wives are not

@harmonizedgrace The Bible doesn’t command men to coerce their wives not does it

RT @ryanschatz: @iheartJ37 @TomBuck Yes, wives should be willing to be convinced

@jgrams90 @TomBuck Wives were treated like property so they were subjected like a slave to a master. Paul is elevating the wife to instead submit out of love like she does to Christ. That does not exclude the husband’s need to subject himself also in...

@iheartJ37 @TomBuck Yes, wives should be willing to be convinced by their husban

@Song_Never_Ends @TomBuck Where does scripture tell wives to obey their husbands

@harmonizedgrace The Bible doesn’t tell wives to *obey* their husbands in everyt

@Eric_Conn When Paul corrects something with wives, does that nullify the husban

@autocorrect2_0 Eph 5:21 has to include husbands submitting to their wives in th

@thomas1sams @MikeWingerii When the Bible says to love one another, it is not do

@MikeWingerii PS&gt; Also... Wives should also love their husbands even if they

@MikeWingerii @SKokenos You say that the man is continually being unfaithful to his wives by his polygamous marriage. Your answer? Any/all of the wives have a right to divorce, but the husband doesn't. But if what you are saying is true, then the h...

@garlicmofongo @MikeWingerii @FlipperTGibbit Nice to see that Mike responded to this already. Thanks for the link. So to summarize, Mike’s first response is similar to my current view, but his appended response is that the husband is being unfaithfu...

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals Wives have *two* heads—as Eve was created by Christ (her primary source or head) from Adam’s flesh and bone (her second source or head). Therefore she has the authority over her own h...

@MikeWingerii Not for church leadership. Question: can you show a case where an

@codyryanyork @smashbaals One sided submission is not what Paul preached! You might note that the verb for “submit” is not even found in v22! Verse 21 is where it is—and it is most definitely mutual, meaning also husbands to wives. Submit doesn’t mea...

@Manny_Clay1 Wives are to be subject to their husbands, yes. But husbands also a

@subq We both agree that wives are to submit to their husbands; I believe husbands also to submit to their wives, to stand under them and set aside their own rights or preferences to do what is in the best interests of their wife. I don’t see husban...

@profitecpro 7. The New Testament doesn't support the view that husbands are to

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@Tomboy_Dragon23 @harmonizedgrace Oh I totally agree that Eph 5:23-24?&/ to

@RealDavidReece Ah @RealDavidReece, one can quote passages without their context, but can you explain them in context? Ok, let's start with Eph 5:22-23👇 1/ Paul deliberately used hypotassō (submission) for husbands & wives, not hypakouō (obedie...

@harmonizedgrace The Bible doesn’t tell wives to obey their husbands in everyt

@MikeWingerii PS> Also... Wives should also love their husbands even if they

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals Wives have two heads—as Eve was created by Christ (her primary source or head) from Adam’s flesh and bone (her second source or head). Therefore she has the authority over her own h...