Monday, October 25, 2010

Submisive

Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord...
*Main Entry: submissive

  Part of Speech: adjective
  •   Definition: compliant
~Synonyms: abject, accommodating, acquiescent, amenable, bowing down, comformable, complying, deferential, docile, domesticated, dutiful, giving-in, humble, ingratiating, lowly, malleable, meek, menial, nonresistant, nonresisting, obedient, obeisant, obeying, obsequious, passive, patient, pliable, pliant, resigned, servile, slavish, subdued, tame, tractable, uncomplaining, unresisting, yes*, yielding
~Antonyms: disobedient, fighting, intractable, resistant, unyielding
* = informal/non-formal usage
  • Main Entry: abject
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hopeless and downtrodden
Synonyms: base, contemptible, degraded, dejected, deplorable, dishonorable, fawning, forlorn, groveling, hangdog, humiliated, low, miserable, outcast, pitiable, servile, submissive, worthless, wretched
Antonyms: commendable, exalted, excellent, magnificent, noble, proud, worthy
Ephesians 5:25, 28
Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church......
  • Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies...he who loves his wife loves himself....no one has ever hated their own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church.
Who can explain to me what this scripture is saying??

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