16 To the woman He said:

“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;
(A)In pain you shall bring forth children;
(B)Your desire shall be [a]for your husband,
And he shall (C)rule over you.”

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  1. Genesis 3:16 Lit. toward

to be discreet, chaste, (A)homemakers, good, (B)obedient to their own husbands, (C)that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

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The Christian Home(A)

18 (B)Wives, submit to your own husbands, (C)as is fitting in the Lord.

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But I want you to know that (A)the head of every man is Christ, (B)the head of woman is man, and (C)the head of Christ is God.

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15 Nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

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Marriage—Christ and the Church(A)

22 Wives, (B)submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For (C)the husband is head of the wife, as also (D)Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands (E)in everything.

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34 (A)Let [a]your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the (B)law also says.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 14:34 NU omits your

11 Let a woman learn in silence with all submission. 12 And (A)I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence.

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The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

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21 (A)A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

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If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is [a]for you, but you should rule over it.”

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  1. Genesis 4:7 Lit. toward

Submission to Husbands

Wives, likewise, be (A)submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, (B)they, without a word, may (C)be won by the conduct of their wives, (D)when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear. (E)Do not let your adornment be merely outward—arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel— rather let it be (F)the hidden person of the heart, with the [a]incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, (G)calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror.

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  1. 1 Peter 3:4 imperishable

24 We have heard the report of it;
Our hands grow feeble.
(A)Anguish has taken hold of us,
Pain as of a woman in [a]labor.

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  1. Jeremiah 6:24 childbirth

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