Love Your Wife, Respect Your Husband
The end of Ephesians 5 sums up the duties of husbands and wives in verse 33 saying, “Each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” Colossians repeats this counsel in chapter 3 vs. 18 and 19 – “Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them” Nowhere in the Bible is the woman told to love her husband. Titus 2 vs 4.tells the older women to “ train the younger women to love their husbands” . That is the closest reference to women loving the husband. In comparison, the husband is repeatedly told to love his wife. Why aren’t women told to love their husbands? It seems inconsistent to our worldly views of love. When we look at our needs, though, the main need of a woman is to feel loved and for a man, to feel respected. God did not inspire these verses casually. They were intended to clearly remind us of thes...