1 Peter 3:7
Again, those of you who are married men should live considerately with your wives, showing them respect not only because they are not as phsyically strong as you but also becuase they share with you in the gift of life. Then you will be able to pray without hindrance.
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Genesis 2:23Then the human said, “This now is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, for from man she was taken.”
Matthew 5:23Therefore, when presenting your gift at the altar, if even there you remember that your brother or sister has something against you,
Matthew 19:3Presently some Pharisees came up to him, and, to test him, said, “Has a man the right to divorce his wife for every cause?”
1 Corinthians 7:3A husband should give his wife her due, and a wife her husband.
Ephesians 3:6That, by union with Christ Jesus and through the good news, the Gentiles are coheirs with us and members of one body, and that they share with us in God’s Promise.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 3:2-8
Duties of Husbands and Wives. ( a. d. 66.) 1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. 3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet… Read the whole commentary →