Domestic abuse is the other pandemic that is killing women throughout Australia, and limiting their capacity for doing and being all they are created to do and be. A recent report commissioned by the Anglican Church of Australia (see https://anglicanfocus.org.au/2021/06/11/national-anglican-family-violence-research-report-released) showed that misreadings of some Bible passages are correlated with abuse within churchgoing families. We need to take this seriously and take a close look at what Paul was really saying in Ephesians 5.