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In verses nine to eleven, Paul explains the phrase “women submit to your husband”.

God created lines of authority in order for his created world to function smoothly. Although there must be lines of authority, even in marriage, there should not be lines of superiority.

God created women and men with unique and complementary characteristics. One sex is not better than the other. We must not as a society let the issue of authority and submission become a wedge to the destroy the unity and oneness of marriage.

Instead, all couples must use their unique gifts to strengthen their marriages and to glorify God.

1 Corinthians 11:9-11
9 neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. 10 It is for this reason that a woman ought to have authority over her own[a] head, because of the angels. 11 Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.