Yes. Every Christian, married or single, is asked to submit to God, to church leaders and “to one another out of reverence for Christ” (Ephesians 5:21). The verses telling wives to submit speak to wives about their own husbands. They belong to marriage, and churches disagree about what they mean even there. All of it follows one pattern. Christ “humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:8), and Paul asks us…

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