Should women submit to their husbands(Christians)?

Of course they should. Just as Husbands should love their wives as Christ loved the Church. Think about that... Christ died for the Church. This is why true Christian marriages work. There is no reason for a wife not to submit to a husband that loves her that much!

The Bible says you should submit to the authority of your husband and that the husband should love you as his own body and treat his wife as equal. This makes it an equal relationship. I am with my husband for over 15 years. Happy and strong in the Christian faith. You have to read the Bible as a complete text, not take it apart and try to apply law when it makes good fodder for debate. You must also understand how the Bible was translated and who translated the version you want to question or debate. Understanding its meaning and words goes far beyond the words you see on pages in a book written in the English Language. Failed marriage is due to a lack of mutual respect for the partner and failure to honor a commitment to another. Sometimes it is the harder path to take and I find people who are more interested in self and personal gains are the people who don't stay in a marriage. It takes commitment and a shared value system. Give and take, respect, commitment to another over commitment to self. That is my experience/opinion.

No I think men should submit to their wives!!! They should feel less as a human being, put through oppression their entire lives, and seen as weak in mind and wit. Maybe you would think twice about asking such an ignorant, ridiculous, disgusting question. It's men like you that i wish you were degraded as much as women in history. Even though women did fight in the american revolution, stood up against to articulate a slave free society, while fighting for their own rights. Oh and not to mention creating you.

Slave and dictatorship may not be what your talking about, but you have to realize it was this kind of thinking that led to the opression of women. You are no better than a woman so why should she submit to you? Thats barbaric thinking... Your biased because you are a man and if your referencing this from the bible, where do you think this idea of women came from? The bible!! Who was the first sinner? Women? Who wrote the bible? Men, of course man wouldn't be the first sinner, at least not when men wrote it.

I submit to my husband as long as he is submits to Christ, being an honorable, loving, upstanding citizen.

He submits to me too when he knows I am right and he is wrong about something.

He lets me have my way on almost everything because I do not take advantage.

Luckily we think and act so much alike that we rarely feel like we HAVE to "submit". We are soul mates.

Metaphorically these verses are talking about the church of Christ which represents the woman and Christ that represents the husband.

The people of the church are not over the Master of the church.

God does NOT expect women to be forced or intimidated by unrighteous men, just as he would not do that to his church.

I'm very glad that my husband gets this... if he abused his place as husband, I'd be gone.

Lots of marriages end because men demand power over their wives rather than acting in a way that results in gaining his wife's respect and devotion.

Paul is clear, do not yoke yourself to an unbeliever,

but, if you do, treat them with Christian compassion,

forgiveness, and remember:

1st Love the Lord your God with all your heart mind

soul and strength

and

2nd Love your neighbor as yourself

This means you have to have a love relationship

with God yourself first before

extending God's love through you to others (spouses) and

that God comes before everything in your life, and

that God's Love moves you as a spouse

to turn toward one another, becoming as

one flesh.

Adultery is the one item valid for divorce.

Men you are exhorted to love your wife as

Christ loves the church.

Women you are exhorted to obey your

husband as head of the household under God.

It is interesting that men must be told to LOVE

and women to OBEY - seems they have much

to learn from each half. Women love - men obey,

in marriage each half gets to walk in the other's

moccasins.

This works when God is the true head of the

household, then no man takes advantage of

the position of husband and no wife takes

advantage of being wife.

In this day and age, practical Christianity

reigns.

If the spouse is breaking the commandments

and if the other spouse and/or children's welfare

are at stake, then steps need to be taken to insure

that 'render unto Ceasar that which is Caesar's and

unto God that which is God's' - by following

government regulations regarding marital unions,

domestic violence, child abuse, elderly abuse.

My spouse and I submit to God first and then

towards one another - otherwise no valid communication

takes place and there is an atmosphere of tension

distrust confusion, etc.

thanks for the Q :)

It is essential for there to be a "head of house" on all financial documents the husband and wife declare who is the 'head of house.' who wears the pants in the family? who is the one to make the ultimate decisions for the family with their best interests at hand.

God needs to be the head of the house and in the bible he tells us to submits to our spouses! Husbands and wives alike.

Women by all means make emotional, irrational decisions on a day to day basis. Not to say we are incapable of making good decisions because we are. Our decisions are lead by our emotions more than they are by weighing in the facts and reality.

God is put first in our house. If I see my husband make a decision that goes against the word of God I over ride the choice and follow God. I don't have to check with him on every choice there is to be made we trust and stand by each other and there is unity in the house.

When a tough choice needs to be made and we are butting heads about it- I submit and humble myself. As the church would do for Jesus. Rebelling and fighting my husband would be like the church fighting and rebelling against the word of God: we all know what happens when you do that.

SO wives that hate this answer and can not believe it please understand this doesn't make me a push over, or some sheep just following him around- this makes me a strong wife that knows her place. I take my place beside my husband and know he's got my back and would not lead the family into darkness because the liability is his.

It does state in the Word of God in the Book of Corinthians, that we are to submit to our husbands. But God expects this to be 50,50 marriage. No mental and physical abuse.

My failure was marrying the wrong man, it takes a real man to take the steps that God has laid out for a successful marriage.

When I have to be the one underneath the kitchen sink for repairs and he is watching T.V., then obviously he is not capable of being the man as stated he should be, or mowing the lawn at 9 months pregnant and once again watching t.v. and the beat goes on....

No one should have to be a second class citizen because they were born female. The reason why the bible says this : It was written predominately by men.

I for one, will not submit to someone just because I am a woman, no way no how.

The wisdom of ages knew that women can be dangerous when left to their own devices.

Indeed, modern western culture is seeing its downfall mainly down to the control of female political forces.

It is time that women that profess to be Christians put their head down and stop talking in the temple.

What might have worked and was appropriate 2000 years ago has long been left in the dust. Do we marry off our 13 year old girls for family profit no do we stone one another no. Submitting to husbands is yet another way that men in their fear of women kept them in a servitude chattel like state and any woman who thinks it right to have no will needs help.

YES ! When my boyfriend and I get married, I’m definitely going to put him in charge . If we have a dispute or a disagreement, he’ll have the authority to make the final decision . I’m going to submit to him because I believe it's important to be humble, AND because I can trust him to do the right thing for myself and my son . A woman should put her husband in charge is because it's important to be humble, and to show him she trusts him .