5 Bible Verses about Church Authority, Of Jesus Christ

For the husband is the wife's head, even as Christ is the head of the congregation, and the same is the saviour of the body.

And hath put all things under his feet, and hath made him above all things, the head of the congregation:

But let us follow the truth in love, and in all things grow in him which is the head, that is to say Christ,

Therefore as the congregation is in subjection to Christ, likewise let the wives be in subjection to their husbands in all things.

And he is the head of the body, that is, to wit, of the congregation: he is the beginning and first begotten of the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.