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Originally Posted by Apotropoxy
1. "For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner" (1 Tim 2:12-14, NIV).
2. "...and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee" (Gen 3:16).
3. "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man..." (1 Cor 11:3).
4. "Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man" (1 Cor 11:9).
5. "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husband, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife... therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husband in every thing" (Eph 5:22-24). Islam is a primative religion... but look to its roots.
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In terms of quote 5, you forgot the rest of the passage, which, if anything, puts more burden on the man.
Ephesians 5:21-30
21 Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives should be subject to their husbands as to the Lord,
23 since, as Christ is head of the Church and saves the whole body, so is a husband the head of his wife;
24 and as the Church is subject to Christ, so should wives be to their husbands, in everything.
25 Husbands should love their wives, just as Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself for her
26 to make her holy by washing her in cleansing water with a form of words,
27 so that when he took the Church to himself she would be glorious, with no speck or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and faultless.
28 In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies; for a man to love his wife is for him to love himself.
29 A man never hates his own body, but he feeds it and looks after it; and that is the way Christ treats the Church,
30 because we are parts of his Body.
Also, there is a little more in that 1 Cor 11 passage:
11 However, in the Lord, though woman is nothing without man, man is nothing without woman;
12 and though woman came from man, so does every man come from a woman, and everything comes from God.