“Pentecostal adage?”
It’s not mere adage, it’s part of God’s inerrant, infallible, and fully sufficient Scripture. And that passage puts as much or more obligation on the husband. Sadly, too many don’t understand it within the church, so I certainly don’t expect those outside the church to get it.
The wives in my church are treated with honor and respect. And they are a credit to their husbands, they are real ladies who would never embarrass their husbands by being in open rebellion against God’s moral order in the local newspaper.
Ephesians 5:22-33
King James Version (KJV)
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
When I first read this story, certain verses from the 14th chapter of Proverbs came to mind.
14:1 “Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.” I hope this family is ready for unemployment because that is the likely outcome. Did her foolish rebellion pluck prosperity out from under her family?
14:8-9 “The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit. Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.”
14:12 “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”
14;25 “A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.”
14:33-34 “Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”