3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
You, the egalitarian on the back left. Stop snickering at the subject to part. If the guys lived up to the specs in verses 1 and 2, they'd not be much of an issue of letting them be in charge, since they'd be asking what you wanted and acting accordingly.
I'm picturing the perpetually drunk British gals of a certain age from Absolutely Fabulous as the anti-verse-3 poster girls.
"Busy at home" might not require a full-time homemaker in a modern setting, especially if there aren't kids in the picture. A modern empty-nest household can be well-managed on a part-time basis, leaving the more complementarian gals to model Proverbs 31 and the more egalitarian ones to just use their talents somewhere in the community.
Making sure it is well managed (which can and should be a joint proposition; guys aren't immune from helping out around the house) is a point of order; a poorly managed household doesn't give a good witness.
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