Love your wives. This modifies the relationship. The word here for love is AGAPE. If the wife's duty is submission, the husband's is love - a love like Christ's! This gives Paul an opportunity to point to the great love which Christ had, and in particular, the loving act of the Cross!!! Compare Ephesians 1:5; Ephesians 2:4-5; Romans 5:8.

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Old Testament