30/08/2026
WHY SUBMISSION TO HUSBAND IS SUBMISSION TO GOD.
I counsel married women quite often that submission to your husband is a divine mandate, not merely a matter of convenience, personality, or whether your husband has earned it.
If you desire to enjoy the marriage institution as ordained by God and experience the blessings attached to His design, you must understand and obey His principles.
Your level of education, social status, financial capacity, professional achievement, or even the fact that you may earn more than your husband does not cancel this divine instruction.
Submission is not predicated on whether a man is richer, more educated, more successful, or more qualified than his wife. It is a biblical order established by God for marriage.
Ephesians 5:22 says:
«“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”»
And verse 23 further establishes the husband as the head of the wife.
This does not mean that a wife has no voice, no wisdom, no rights, or that a husband is permitted to abuse or oppress her.
Biblical submission is not a licence for abuse. Rather, it is an acknowledgement of God's order within marriage, just as the husband is commanded to love his wife sacrificially, “even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.” See, Ephesians 5:25.
Therefore, marriage is not designed to operate according to whichever principle suits either spouse. God's instructions apply to both husband and wife.
There is no shortcut to enjoying God's design for marriage. When couples deliberately disregard divine principles and attempt to build marriage solely on personal preferences, pride, competition, or worldly standards, they can create avoidable marital conflict and eventually destroy what God intended to preserve.
So, before entering marriage, understand the rules of the institution you are entering.
If a woman knows that she cannot willingly submit to the biblical authority God has established for marriage, she should seriously reconsider entering that institution.
And perhaps some of us need to stop asking God endlessly for a peaceful marriage while deliberately ignoring the principles He has already given us for achieving one.
Sometimes, the answer to the prayer is already in the instruction.
Read the Word. Understand God's design. Obey His principles.
Ephesians 5:22–25.