¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.

⁷ Husbands, in the same way, show consideration for your wives in your life together, paying honor to the woman—though the weaker vessel,^[a] they are joint heirs of the gracious gift of life—so that nothing may hinder your prayers.^(A)

²³ Then the man said,

²⁴ Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.^(B)

²¹ Fathers, do not provoke your children, or they may lose heart.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

²⁸ In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no one ever hates his own flesh, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

³¹ Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice.^(A)

³³ Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect^[a] her husband.

⁹ Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life that are given you under the sun,^[a] because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.^(A)