Christians: Should Wives Submit Their Husbands?

Question

From a Christian point of view, should wives submit to their husbands? At the top of your answer, just give me a simple "yes" or a "no", and add details at the bottom. Scripture quoting is encouraged.

Oh dear, spelling correcting:

Christians: Should Wives Submit TO Their Husbands* :)

er, Correction, not correcting :) I guess it's one of those typo days for me...

lol, that totally ruined the question :) dumb 'ol Sam...

Answer 1

Yes
Submission is a natural response to loving leadership. When a husband loves his wife as Christ loves the church (Ephesians 5:25-33), then submission is a natural response from a wife to her husband. The Greek word translated submit (Hupotasso) is the continuing form of the verb. This means that to submit to God, our leaders, and our husband is not a one-time decision. It is a continual attitude of our minds, which becomes a pattern of behavior. The submission talked about in Ephesians 5 is not talking about one-sided subjection by a believer to a selfish-domineering person. Biblical submission is designed to be between two Spirit-filled believers who are mutually yielded to each other and to God. Submission is a two-way street. Submission is a position of honor and completeness. When a wife is loved as Christ loves the church, submission is not difficult. Ephesians 5:24 says, “just as the church submits itself to Christ.” This verse is saying that the wife is to submit to her husband in everything that is right and lawful. Therefore, the wife is under no obligation to disobey the law or neglect her relationship to God.

Answer 2

Christians: Should Wives Submit Their Husbands?

Answer 3

Specifically in the case that you mention, if you do not mind, then you are in essence enabling him, so you ARE submitting whether you think that you are or not. Tell him that you do not appreciate the ropes, though. Now, on to your question: Submitting to your husband does not mean doing whatever he says. Not to mention the fact that submission is required in a CHRISTIAN marriage. Were the marriage in fact Christian, then your husband would also be doing his duty and leading you by love, and you could (and SHOULD) then willingly submit to him, because you would know that he is 1.) asking nothing of you except that he loves you (i.e. nothing that would be painful or hurtful), and 2.) himself submitting to Christ, and as you KNOW that Jesus would never lead your husband in the wrong direction, you could also confidently submit yourself to your husband's lead; whether or not you agree with it or not, you would KNOW that it was Christ's lead. And submission can only occur where equality is present. How can a person submit to someone who is dominant (a.k.a. FORCES his will on the other person)? It can't be done, because where there is domination, there is already inequality. Only if both parties are equal can one (at least willingly) submit to the other. Getting back to your case specifically: I personally do not see how that particular act in any way leads your marriage in a Christ-like direction. It sounds to me that that is your husband selfishly trying to impose his will on you. If as you say you do not mind, then have at it. But you are not REQUIRED to submit to something like that.

Answer 4

No.

"The wife should no more submit to their husbands than the husbands submitting to their wives, for the marriage one to another shall consist of equal partners for the edification of each other, for this is the 21st Century." Epistle of Glade 3:13...

Answer 5

Note what God said to Eve"

Your desire is toward your husband, but he shall rule over you.

ANY feminist hates this. In other words, Eve goofed by listening to the serpent instead of counsel from her husband.
Anyway, a godly woman would have no problem submitting to her covering, AS UNTO THE LORD. The Lord takes pleasure in this.
The Word says so.

Answer 6

Marriage should be an equal relationship. No one expects friends to have a leader, so why in marriage? It just does not make sense to me. Submission implies one person is better than the other. Such thinking cannot be
from God. I believe scripture has been tampered with. My gut feeling says this is wrong.

Answer 7

It's all about love and respect. If the husband is willing to die for his wife then she should respect him enough to "submit" to him. Submit by respecting his authority. He is the leader. But not submit in the sense that the women is less than the man. If the man loves the woman enough to die for her than the result should be her trusting submission that he has her best interests in mind.

Answer 8

Yes.

I am a Christian women, and I believe in the scripture from Ephesians whole-heartedly. I believe it is God showing us exactly how he wants the marriage to be. However, if you keep on reading the scripture, it shows how husbands should treat their wives. It tells husbands to love their wives as Christ loves the Church, and we all know that Christ gave his life for the Church.

22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— 30for we are members of his body. 31"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."[c] 32This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.



**EDIT**
I want to qualify by saying that one does not depend on the other. The wife should not submit IF her husband acts a certain way and vice versa. It should be done in obedience to God's will.

Answer 9

No.

This stems from Paul, not Jesus. Paul was a misogynist. To me his epistles are just letters from a priest to his churches, not divine inspiration.

From the Wiki article below:

The church has been criticized for being misogynistic. "The foundations of early Christian misogyny — its guilt about sex, its insistence on female subjection, its dread of female seduction — are all in St. Paul's epistles. They provided a convenient supply of divinely inspired misogynistic texts for any Christian writer who chose to use them; his statements on female subjection were still being quoted in the twentieth century opponents of equality for women."[3]

Answer 10

No

God created men and women to be equal.

Paul was the one who advised women to submit. HOWEVER, he qualified that by saying that men ought to treat their husbands as Christ treated the church: as a prefect jewel, to be treasured. If men did that, women would not be afraid to submit to their husband's wishes.