{"id":15440,"date":"2025-02-28T20:08:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T01:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15440"},"modified":"2025-03-03T20:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T01:15:40","slug":"the-submissive-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15440\/the-submissive-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"The Submissive Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

I have a question related to\u00a0this part of\u00a0the Colossians reading\u00a0this morning: “Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as is appropriate in the Lord” (Col. 3:18).<\/span><\/p>\n

Can you expand on that a little?\u00a0\u00a0When Paul says,\u00a0“as is appropriate in the Lord,”\u00a0he is talking in a spiritual sense, correct?\u00a0\u00a0Or could this be physical as well?<\/span><\/p>\n

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The spiritual sense of every exhortation includes the physical.\u00a0 The whole being, the whole life is involved when spiritual guidance is given.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Does \u201cappropriate\u201d mean to the extent it does not take you outside of the will of\u00a0God?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Always.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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I am curious about that part.\u00a0\u00a0I know that is not saying be submissive as the world views it.\u00a0\u00a0Over the years,\u00a0I had gained such a yuck for the word submissive,\u00a0due to its misuse.\u00a0\u00a0I know better now as I have grown with Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0But\u00a0I\u00a0want to understand this a little better and my role as a newish wife.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Being submissive as a wife, especially to a godly husband, is a happy life.\u00a0 The husband has the more challenging role from God because it requires more humility and wisdom for him to love his wife as Christ loves the saints (Eph. 5:25) than for the wife to be submissive.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Also, is being a virtuous woman, the same thing as being a submissive wife?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Not exactly.\u00a0 Virtue includes doing all the will of God, not just the submissive part.\u00a0 One description of a virtuous woman is found in Proverbs 31:10\u201331.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Have enjoyed thinking on things like this lately!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you,<\/span><\/p>\n

Margo\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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You are very welcome.\u00a0 I am glad to know that you are thinking on these things.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Your servant.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1896730996080611729<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hey Pastor John, I have a question related to\u00a0this part of\u00a0the Colossians reading\u00a0this morning: “Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as is appropriate in the Lord” (Col. 3:18). Can you expand on that a little?\u00a0\u00a0When Paul says,\u00a0“as is appropriate in the Lord,”\u00a0he is talking in a spiritual sense, correct?\u00a0\u00a0Or could this be physical as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15442,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440\/revisions\/15442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}