Submission to Husband or God?

What does it mean for a wife to submit to her husband?  Is a wife to enable or silently abide the sinful patterns of her husband out of respect or reverence?  

Submission never means that we go along with sin, like Saphira who co-plotted sin with Ananias in their deceitful offering of money for the land that was sold (Acts 5:1-11).

On the flip side, we also don’t want to have a Jezebel spirit that further entices a husband into sinful ways, as in the life of the evil king, Ahab (1 Kings 16:31-33; 21)

A husband is also called to love his wife with a self sacrificing love, like Jesus (Ephesians 5:25).  And the kind of love that Christ had was one that regarded others as better than Himself and completely void of selfish ambition (Philippians 2:3-8).

Submission and love then is a picture of Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5:32).  Love is  sacrificial and regards others as better than itself, and the submission of the wife would first entail a submission of her will and spirit to receive the husband's self sacrificing love like Jesus. Submitting to his self sacrificing love for her just all Christians are called to surrender to Jesus’s loving sacrifice for us on the cross in grace. 

Join the discussion as we dive into what the Bible has to say about submission and love in marriage.

Scripture to Reflect on

Colossians 3:12-19

Ephesians 5:15-33

Philippians 2:3-8

1 Corinthians 13:5-8

1 Peter 2:21-3:7

Exodus 21:7-11

Matthew 18:15-17

1 Corinthians 7:12-16

1 Samuel 25

Proverbs 31:10-31

Resources for Explore

The Deep End w/Taylor Welch: God's System for Healing (required pain, suffering, & reversing beliefs w/Dr. Tim Jennings

The Deep End w/Taylor Welch: Nimrod vs Jezebel (prophetic mixture, ascendance, & twisted Scripture)