Rulership vs Headship

Genesis 3:14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals!

Genesis 3:16 Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule (be consumed by, controlled mind and body, (dictionary- the standard of judgment) over you.” NOT A CURSE

Genesis 3:17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;  through painful toil, you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 

The head is not regarded as the seat of the intellect but as the source of life (Mt. 14:8, 11; Jn. 19:30)

John 19:30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.  

So when a man is spoken of as the head of the woman (1 Cor. 11:3; Eph. 5:23; cf. Gn. 2:21f.), the basic meaning of the head as the source of all life and energy is predominant.

 Ephesians 5:22-24  Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 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. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Malachi 2:16  “The man who hates and divorces his wife,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,”[b] says the Lord Almighty. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful.

1 Corinthians 7:15  But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases, the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

Hebrews 13:4 

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

Psalm 11:5 The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

1 Peter 3:7 Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

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