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Gill's Exposition
Husbands, love your wives,.... See Gill on Eph 5:25.
and be not bitter against them; turning love into hatred of their persons; ruling with rigour, and in a tyrannical manner; behaving towards them…
Barnes' Notes
Husbands, love your wives ... - Notes, Eph 4:25-29.
Adam Clarke
Be not bitter against them - Wherever bitterness is, there love is wanting. And where love is wanting in the married life, there is hell upon earth.
The apostle concludes the chapter with exhortations to relative duties, as before in the epistle to the Ephesians. The epistles which are most taken up in displaying the glory of divine grace, and…
Cambridge Bible
Husbands Cp. Eph 5:25-33; 1Pe 3:7.
love A word deepened and hallowed indefinitely by the Gospel, in reference to matrimonial truth and tenderness. See our note on Eph 5:25.
be not bitter with the…
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