Submission has almost become a dirty word in today's society when applied to marriage. We will discuss in the Bible study what God says about this important principle in Ephesians and in first Peter. The Greek word for submission is upotasso: upo (under) + tasso (arrange or organize) which essentially means to organize or arrange yourself under the person to whom you are submitting. This is a Biblical imperative statement - in other words not optional, but a command. Frank Barker has defined this as "to yield in surrender, in compliance to one who is in control of the other". Submission is NOT obedience; obey does not appear in the Bible in relation to wives as it does relating to children and slaves. God has ordered who is to be in authority in the secular world (that is: president, senators, representatives, etc.) and in the church (pastors, elders, deacons); even our Lord Jesus Christ submitted to His Heavenly Father. A wife is to submit to her husband NOT because she is inferior in an inferior role BUT because she is in a DIFFERENT Role. Who is more important, the husband or the wife? The answer is that neither is because both are as important because both are completing their roles that have been assigned by God. They are both fulfilling different responsibilities as they together make a COMPLETE unit.

Quotations about wife

• "Love is the thing that enables a wife to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots." 
• "The wife is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods." 
• "someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single".
• "We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it wife."
• "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same wife."