One of my favorite people asked me about I Corinthians 7:4 - "For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does." This is in a little part of the epistle that is subtitled in the English Standard Version, "Principles for Marriage." I believe in order to unpack that we need to go back to Genesis and the creation of the woman from the rib of the man. We need to understand what it means for a man and woman to become one flesh. To think about that the guiding principle is from the Song of Songs, I am my beloved's and he is mine.
