husbands role

²⁵Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her,

¹⁹Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter toward them.

⁷Similarly, you husbands should live with them in accord with knowledge, bestowing honor on the female as the weaker vessel and as co-heirs of the life of grace, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

⁸But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.

²³For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church. He is the Savior of his body.

⁴And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

³³Yet truly, each and every one of you should love his wife as himself. And a wife should fear her husband.

²⁸So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

³So I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ. But the head of woman is man. Yet truly, the head of Christ is God.

²²Wives should be submissive to their husbands, as to the Lord.

¹⁶To the woman, he also said: “I will multiply your labors and your conceptions. In pain shall you give birth to sons, and you shall be under your husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over you.”

¹Similarly also, wives should be subject to their husbands, so that, even if some do not believe the Word, they may benefit without the Word, through the behavior of these wives,

²⁴For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.

⁴so that they may teach prudence to the young women, so that they may love their husbands, love their children,

³²But I say to you, that anyone who will have dismissed his wife, except in the case of fornication, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever will have married her who has been dismissed commits adultery.