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Life in the Spirit in Marriage, Home and Work: An Exposition of Ephesians 5:18–6:9 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Volume 6, Chapters 5:18–6:9: Life in the Spirit in Marriage, Home and Work Ephesians 4:17 to the end of Paul’s letter represents the last great division in the epistle, wherein Paul comes to the practical application of the earlier teaching. Lloyd-Jones’s fifth volume is concerned with sin in a pagan world, the differences between sinful and righteous anger, how to communicate with fellow...

it does not teach a mere and a sheer passivity; the wife is not to be entirely passive. It is a mis-interpretation of this picture to say that the wife should never speak, never give an opinion, but be mute or dumb and utterly passive. That is a pressing of an analogy and an illustration to a point at which it becomes meaningless. But what it means is this: the wife should never be guilty of independent action. The analogy of the body and the head insists upon that. The business of my body is not
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