The Bible tells a man to love his wife, to be faithful to her and to treat her with respect, and to treat the other women in his life as family. The instructions to husbands come in three New Testament letters (Ephesians 5:21-33; Colossians 3:18-19; 1 Peter 3:1-7), which address wives and husbands side by side. The Old Testament adds warnings about “the wife of your youth” in Proverbs 5 and Malachi 2. Beyond marriage, the passages speak of a…
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