Love your wives (αγαπατε τας γυναικας). Present active imperative, "keep on loving." That is precisely the point.

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Do not be bitter.—Properly, do not grow bitter, do not allow yourselves to be exasperated. The word is used metaphorical…

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Never say a bitter word against them; and, especially, never dishonour th…

The ancient world was a man’s world, and even among the Jews the wife was often little more than chattel. Paul’s counsel in the present passage is …

Husbands, love your wives (See Gill on Ephesians 5:25).

The epistles most concerned with displaying the glory of Divine grace and magnifying the Lord Jesus are also the most particular in emphasizing the…

Having given a general direction to all, Paul now begins to give particular directions. First, he gives special directions that relate to the vario…