Even as Christ also loved the church (καθως κα ο Χριστος ηγαπησεν την εκκλησιαν). This is the wonderful new point not in Col 3:19 …

Husbands, love your wives. The duty of the wife is to obey; the right of the husband is to command. But the apostle would guard against th…

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church.—The love of Christ for His Church is such that He counts Himself incomple…

What a wonderful expression! To think that we, poor creatures that we are, should be in this way joined to Christ by a marriage union, even by a vi…

Paul turns to the reciprocal duties of the husband. Greco-Roman society held that wives had obligations to their husbands, but not vice versa. Chri…

Husbands, love your wives. From husbands, on the other hand, the apostle requires that they cherish no ordinary love toward their wives; f…

Husbands, love your wives
Which consists in a strong and cordial affection for them; in a real delight and pleasure …

The duty of wives is submission to their husbands in the Lord, which includes honouring and obeying them, from a principle of love to them. The dut…