When sin entered the world it ruined the harmony of marriage not because it brought headship and submission into existence, but because it twisted man’s humble, loving headship into hostile domination in some men and lazy indifference in others. And it twisted woman’s intelligent, willing submission into manipulative obsequiousness in some women and brazen insubordination in others. Sin didn’t create headship and submission; it ruined them and distorted them and made them ugly and destructive.
-John Piper
*Might I add that only be continuous trust in Christ and disciplined obedience to the movement of the Spirit (things that I often fail at) can we ever hope to see the beauty of headship and submission as it was intended.
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