HUSBANDS CAN AND SHOULD MAKE IT EASY FOR THEIR WIVES TO SUBMIT TO THEM

HUSBANDS CAN AND SHOULD MAKE IT EASY FOR THEIR WIVES TO SUBMIT TO THEM

“Wives submit to your own husbands, as unto the Lord.” — Ephesians 5:22

CHARLES CURTMAN Jan 5, 2026 (20+) Facebook

Christians should obey God whether it’s easy or hard for them to do it. But at the same time, Christians should do what they can to make it easier for others to obey God. This is basic to God’s command: “Bear ye one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Gal. 6:2).
For example: Ephesians 5:22 says,: “Wives submit to your own husbands, as unto the Lord.” Husbands can and should make it easyfor their wives to do this. Those who do, take very seriously, God’s command: “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it” (v. 24).
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Husbands who demonstrate Christ-like love for their wives make their ambition for their wives’ welfare and happiness obvious to them, and in so doing, make it easier for their wives to submit to them as they should. Wives conscious of such love will welcome opportunities to submit to their husbands, and their obedience will free them up spiritually, mentally and emotionally to live their lives “more abundantly” (John 10:10)—an ambition Christ has for His church and that husbands should have for their wives (Eph. 5:24-27).
There are no preconditions involved in God command that husbands love their wives as Christ loved and loves the church. No man is justified in waiting until his wife is satisfactorily submissive to him before he begins to love her like he should. Christian men are commanded in this area, as they are in every area, to “walk by faith, and not by sight” (2 Cor. 5:7).
Husbands who love their wives like Christ loved and loves the church are men who dwell with their wives “according to knowledge;” they know that a wife, due to the curse of sin, is the “weaker vessel,” (1 Pet. 3:7), and that this explains the aversion wives may demonstrate relative to submitting to the authority of their husbands (Gen. 3:16; 1 Tim. 2:12). They know this, and deal with it accordingly.
A man who dwells with his wife “according to knowledge” knows that his leadership role as the “head of the wife” (Eph. 5:23) requires him to assume responsibility for, and take the initiative in, doing what is right where loving his wife is concerned. He also knows that he can make his wife’s submission infinitely easier by his loving her unconditionally and consistently regardless of reciprocation, etc. See Rom. 5:8; Rev. 1:5; 1 John 4:19.
A man who dwells with his wife “according to knowledge” also knows that loving her as as he should will bring the awesome power of Christlike love to bear on his marriage, and that this will cause the fruit of the Spirit to be manifested in his life—“The fruit of the Spirit, which is “love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,” He knows too, that such love, while making it easier for his wife to obey God will make it harder for her to give any place to the devil in her life (Eph. 4:27).
A man’s good leadership of his family begins and depends on His loving his wife as he should.
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HUSBANDS CAN AND SHOULD MAKE IT EASY FOR THEIR WIVES TO SUBMIT TO THEM