It should also be clarified that in fundamental Christianity, husband and wife are functionally different, i.e. the man leads the home and the wife supports, but positionally equal. It's not really inequality or sexism- There are merely roles to be filled within the family.
Quote:
Eph. 5:22
Wives, Submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
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The directive to husbands is even more imposing. Paul commands husbands to love by employing
agapate, which means he has the responsibility to exude all the qualities of the Love of God (Agape) explained in 1 Corinthians 13 towards his wife.