7Likewise, 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.
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Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. …
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? …
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; …
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The apostle having treated of the duties of subjects to their sovereigns, and of servants to their masters, proceeds to explain the duty of husbands and wives. I. Lest the Christian matrons should imagine that their conversion to Christ, and their interest in all Christian privileges, exempted them from subjection to their pagan or Jewish husbands, the apostle here tells them, 1. In what the duty…
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