3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
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Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)The apostle comes now, as a faithful and skilful casuist, to answer some cases of conscience which the Corinthians had proposed to him. Those were things whereof they wrote to him , 1 Cor. 7:1. As the lips of ministers should keep knowledge , so the people should ask the law at their mouths . The apostle was as ready to resolve as they were to propose their doubts. In the former chapter, he warns…
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