Husbands Have Ascendancy Over Their Wives

Prologue

               A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a

               woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For 

               Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it 

               was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But women will 

               be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness 

               with propriety. 1 Timothy 2:11-15

               Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For 

               the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his 

               body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so 

               also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Ephesians 5:21-24

             

Wives' Desire for their Husbands
Rules their Lives

Genesis 3:12-16 

The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

“Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel.”

To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”

Both Devoted to Jacob,
Leah and Rachel Bear
Him Children

Genesis 29: 31-35

When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless. Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.”

She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Because the Lord heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon.

Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.

She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” So she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children. 

Continue reading: Genesis 30:1-22

Epilogue

A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. 8 For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. It is for this reason that a woman ought to have authority over her own[c] head, because of the angels. Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God. 1 Corinthians 11:7-12

N. B. All Scripture taken from New International Version (By www.biblegateway.com)