The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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1 Peter 3:5:
For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands
(NIV)
For it was thus that the pious women of old who hoped in God were [accustomed] to beautify themselves and were submissive to their husbands [adapting themselves to them as themselves secondary and dependent upon them].
(AMP)
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
(KJV)
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There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
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1 Peter 3:1:
Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives
(NIV)
IN LIKE manner, you married women, be submissive to your own husbands [subordinate yourselves as being secondary to and dependent on them, and adapt yourselves to them], so that even if any do not obey the Word [of God], they may be won over not by discussion but by the [godly] lives of their wives
(AMP)
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
(KJV)
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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College is that bright interlude of freedom a young man has between subjection to his mother and submission to his wife.
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There being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species should be equal amongst one another without subordination or subjection
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1 Timothy 2:11:
A woman should learn in quietness and full submission.
(NIV)
Let a woman learn in quietness, in entire submissiveness.
(AMP)
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
(KJV)
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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
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