How A Christian Husband Should Love His Wife

Respect Your Wife

In the bible, Paul wrote:

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. (Eph. 5:24)

But Paul doesn’t mean that your wife should let you abuse, neglect, or disrespect her.

What Paul is teaching the Christians, is that the husband leads the wife. Not abusing or mistreating the wife.

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. (Eph. 5:23)

In fact, Peter also said that a Christian husband should always honor his wife, protect her dignity, and must not destroy his wife’s reputation:

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.(1 Pet. 3:7).

Work With Your Wife as a Team

For a marriage to be healthy and successful, both husband and wife should work as a team.

Marriage is a bond with two people. In that case, the husband and wife are lives that are tied together. Therefore, a husband should treat his wife as a companion and a teammate.

In Genesis 2:18, the Bible says that a man should not be alone and needs a “suitable helper.” That’s when God created Eve because Adam needed her.

Be Devoted to Your Wife

In marriage, rough times are inevitable. Christ will sometimes test you. Whether due to financial, emotional, physical, or any challenges, a Christian husband should always be faithful to his wife.

A Christian husband should always prioritize her wife’s happiness above all.

In doing so, not only he honors his wife but also the Lord.

as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her (Eph. 5:25;)

A Christian husband should also devote himself to his wife for the rest of his life.

In loving your wife in a Christian way, your goal as a husband is that separation is not an option.

Whatever difficulties that both of you will face, your bond should be strong and nothing should break it.

What God has joined together, let no one separate. (Mark 10:9)

Have an Intimate Sexual Relationship

One’s body has physical needs. So, it’s important not to disregard your wife, and fulfill your wife’s needs on a physical level.

Through intimacy, both husband and wife increase the connection to each other. It also helps to strengthen the emotional and spiritual bond of one’s marriage.

In the Bible, Paul also wrote:

The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. (1 Corinthians 7:3)

Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control. (1 Corinthians 7:5)

Loving your wife as to how a Christian husband should be is indeed a lot of work, but doing so, will be beneficial for you. Not only you are doing God’s word, but you are also doing your role as a husband to keep your marriage blessed.