Findeth Yourself a Good Wife

A husband's mistreatment of his wife is not a Christian teaching as the scriptures quoted below clearly demonstrate. Quite to the contrary, a husband is required to cherish her as his own flesh.

Proverbs 19:14
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Proverbs 18:22 He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

30 Charm can be deceiving,
and beauty fades away,
but a woman
who honors the Lord
deserves to be praised.
31 Show her respect—
praise her in public
for what she has done.

Ephesians 5:25-30
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, ...

Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Ephesians 5:28
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:33
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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Radrook said:
A husband's mistreatment of his wife is not a Christian teaching as the scriptures quoted below clearly demonstrate. Quite to the contrary, a husband is required to cherish her as his own flesh.
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"Quite to the contrary, a husband is required to cherish her as his own flesh."

Shouldn't that be a two-way street ?
 
A man says to his new wife, "You must understand I am the boss around here! When I come home from work, I expect dinner to be ready and after dinner, I'll sit in my lounger and watch TV and when the kitchen is all cleaned up, I'll get my feet massaged. Do you know who's going to do all that?"

"Me, I guess," replied the new wife.

"Yeah, YOU! And after that, someone will draw me a bath of perfect temperature, scrub my back and wash my hair. Do you know who that someone will be?"

"I guess that will be me, too."

"And do you know who will comb my hair?"

"I'm assuming it will be the undertaker," she said.
 
rgp said:
"Quite to the contrary, a husband is required to cherish her as his own flesh."

Shouldn't that be a two-way street ?
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Certainly. But a man is reminded because of his assigned leadership role. Or do you believe that a man's assigned leadership in marriage is unjust simply because it is a leadership assignment?
 
jujube said:
A man says to his new wife, "You must understand I am the boss around here! When I come home from work, I expect dinner to be ready and after dinner, I'll sit in my lounger and watch TV and when the kitchen is all cleaned up, I'll get my feet massaged. Do you know who's going to do all that?"

"Me, I guess," replied the new wife.

"Yeah, YOU! And after that, someone will draw me a bath of perfect temperature, scrub my back and wash my hair. Do you know who that someone will be?"

"I guess that will be me, too."

"And do you know who will comb my hair?"

"I'm assuming it will be the undertaker," she said.
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There was this man who amputated both his wife's hands because she didn't' have dinner ready when he got home from work.
 
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