Battering Is Called The Most Unreported Crime

Incredible as it may seem, wife abuse is sometimes justified from the Scriptures and the Biblical concept of marriage ,
the violated wife is continually reminded that the apostle Paul told women to submit to their husbands in everything,
because her husband is her head as Christ is head of the Church.

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church.
Now as the church submits to Christ , so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything."
{ Ephesians 5:22-24}

But we should also read the context of this passage , the scriptures preceding and following.

Verse 21, " Submit to one another out of reverance for Christ. "
Verse 25 , Husbands love your wives , just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. "