The Love of Men Who Are Husbands

Men who are husbands, as believers being filled with the Holy Spirit, will love their wives with the quality of love generated by the Spirit. Husbands are commanded by God to love their wives as Christ loved HIs church. This love is sacrificial at times choosing to do what is needful and best for their own wives and not dependent upon the attitude or action of the wife to be loved but is dependent upon the Holy Spirit and motivated by the desire to be pleasing to God. The command to wives to respect their husbands likewise is directed to women who are believers having the indwelling Holy Spirit whose control they are ultimately living in submission to.