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Lack of affection and respect toward one's wife |
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One’s wife
must be loved as oneself and respected, for Peter says to the husbands:
“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” (1 Peter 3:7) and Paul
says: “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and
gave himself for it” (Ephesians 5:25). |
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Therefore,
brothers, don’t beat your wife, don’t throw anything at her, don’t speak to
her any bad word, don’t treat her brutally, don’t slander her, don’t despise
her, and don’t think that she has only duties toward you because she has also
some rights according to the Scripture. And woe to those husbands who ride
roughshod over the rights of their wives; they will surely be punished for
their haughtiness! |