rough_rider wrote: And I'm not letting my wife prance around in a halter top and tight shorts in public either.
Not "let her" ??
Exactly!
Comes from verses like...
1 Peter 3:1
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands;
Ephesians 5:24
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
and
1 Timothy 3:4-5
One that ruleth well his own house ... (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Now, I realize that it is more about her willing subjection to my headship. And, sure, I may not always be the best example of "
ruler of the household", or "
head of the marriage", but I try to be. It's similar there to respecting leadership in the church, or over the nation.
Nevertheless, headship is established. She may do something I don't like, and have clearly said I don't want her to do, but if she does then she does so against my wishes, and in violation of passages such as these. In fact, any man who will not exert his headship, out of love and duty, isn't fit to lead in the church.
Society may think nothing of it (
essentially denying headship of the husband), shoot even many in the church seems to scorn this teaching, not thinking much of it, but you'd better believe God does.
So yeah "let".
