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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP again. Here is the whole verse:

Ephesians 5:22-33 NKJV. Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.[/quote]

PP, that's not the whole verse. You skipped 5:21:  Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ.  Followed by 5:31 "the two shall become one flesh." You skipped the parallel discussion directed to husband's too.

The whole thing is a call to cling to each other as we should cling to God, as God clings to us. It's wrapped in a parallel discussion of Christian's relationship with the Church and God. It is not about female servitude, in fact the mutuality in 5:21 is an intentional departure from the hierarchy observed in old testament writings, which would have been obvious and stark when written.

But, I get how odd the text probably sounds to unstudied ears.[/quote]

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