Genesis 3:16

16 To the woman he said,

	“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
		in pain you shall bring forth children.
	Your ydesire shall be for1 your husband,
		and zhe shall rule over you.”

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Genesis 4:7
If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, and you must rule over it.”

1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Ephesians 5:23
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

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