going the ‘extra mile’. Thus for example, while Paul never calls on a wife to be ‘obedient’ to her husband; in the cultural situation of many of the churches to which he wrote this would have been generally expected, and therefore would be the appropriate behaviour for a wife, particularly if her husband was not a Christian. Paul proclaimed the liberty and equality of all who were ‘in Christ’, but although these principles were implicit in all he said and would automatically lead to changes in the