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Is Male Authority “Implied” in the Bible?

February 17, 2014 by Bob Edwards

Is Male Authority “Implied” in the Bible?

in Ephesians 5:24, Greek manuscripts of the New Testament frame male authority or the submission of wives to husbands not as command, but rather as a description.

Filed Under: Authority, Bible translation, complementarianism, Difficult Passages, egalitarianism, Gender Roles, leadership, marriage and family, Paul, submission Tagged With: Ephesians, Greek, household codes, Jesus, John Piper, male authority, mutual submission, Paul, subject, submission

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