A COUPLE, YEA, A HARMONIOUS UNION

A COUPLE, YEA, A HARMONIOUS UNION

Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Colossians [MKJV] 3:18-19 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as is becoming in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter against them.

  I’ve never verbalized or published Colossians 3:18-19 without argumentative reaction from at least one person in audience. Usually it’s a married woman. Occasionally it’s a fearful husband. The two main reasons being emotional response or illiteracy or thereby pairing the two. Yesterday was no different.

  Sans emotions, without going to original language definitions, let’s look at English translation. Looking at yours whether KJV, MKJV, NKJV, NLT, GW, CEV, ASV, NIV or some other . . . Who does it say a wife should be subject to? Have you noticed the possessive “your” “your own” et al? Stated contrariwise: Wives are not to subject themselves to other women’s husbands, bachelors, or even delightful widowers like me!

  This is not addressing sexual adultery in the immediate tense. It is addressing long-term trust quotient in marriage. (Emotional and/or intellectual infidelity is committed far more often than sexual adultery; and with somewhat 40 hour intimacy too often leads to copulation imagined or practiced.)

  And then there is the 2Timothy 2:15-16; 3:15-16 principles of hermeneutics connection with Genesis 3:1-6. (Paul was highly educated, including well-learned in existent Scripture.)

  Is the reaction to verse 3:18 and the typical lack of reaction to verse 3:19 odd? Or is it simply more revealing when it comes to marriage?

  Am I forgetting to explain 3:19? No. I’m confident you’ve already figured it out.

  Then there’s our oath of marital allegiance to think about and possible pledge to one another again.  EBB4