02 November 2009

mutual submission

"Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ." ~Ephesians 5:21 [NIV]

In each relationship, each person can have a conciliatory attitude that will help that relationship. The grammar indicates that this mutual submission is associated with the filling of the Spirit of God...To submit means to yield one's own rights.

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control...Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other." ~Galatians 5:22-26 [NIV]

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