'Submissive' in the Bible
And just as the Church submits to Christ, so also married women should be entirely submissive to their husbands.
Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach.
Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?
Obey your leaders and be submissive to them. For they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will have to give account; that they may do this with joy and not with lamentation. For that would be of no advantage to you.
Household servants, be submissive to your masters, and show them the utmost respect--not only if they are kind and thoughtful, but also if they are unreasonable.
Married women, in the same way, be submissive to your husbands, so that even if some of them disbelieve the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over by the daily life of their wives, after watching your daily life--
For in ancient times also this was the way the holy women who set their hopes upon God used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their husbands.
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- Submissive (22 instances)
- Subservient (5 instances)