2. Love your wife by being the spiritual leader and example in the home (Eph.5:23; 6:4; 1Cor.11:3)
3. Love your wife as Christ loves the Church (Eph.5:21-29)
4. Love your wife by worshiping God in a biblical manner, and so not bringing her into disrepute (1Cor.11 & 14)
5. Love your wife by washing with the word (Eph.5:26)
6. Love your wife by teaching her the word of God (1Cor.14:35)
7. Love your wife by encouraging her to grow in the Lord (Eph.5:25-27)
8. Love your wife by encouraging her to be holy and blameless (Eph.5:27)
9. Love your wife by submitting yourself to her, as she does to you (Eph.5:21)
10. Love your wife by nourishing her (Eph.5:29)
11. Love your wife by treating her as a weaker vessel (1Pet.3:7-9)
12. Love your wife by protecting and providing for her (1Tim.5:8)
13. Love your wife by giving yourself up for her (Eph.5:25)
14. Love your wife as your own body (Eph.5:28)
15. Love your wife by enjoying life with her (Ecc.9:9)
16. Love your wife by cherishing her (Eph.5:29)
17. Love your wife by honoring her (1Pet.3:7)
18. Love your wife by being patient with her (Eph.4:2; 1Cor.13:4)
19. Love your wife by being gentle with her (Eph.4:2; Prov.15:1)
20. Love your wife by being kind to her (1Cor.13:4)
21. Love your wife by being compassionate with her (1Pet.3:8)
22. Love your wife by bearing with her in love (Eph.4:2)
23. Love your wife by being forgiving (Mt.6:12-15; Lk.17:3-4; Col.3:13-14)
24. Love your wife by loving her fervently and earnestly (1Pet.4:8)
25. Love your wife by remaining faithful to her (Heb.13:4)
26. Love your wife by not depriving her (1Cor.7:5)
27. Love your wife by submitting yourself to her, as she does to you (Eph.5:21)
28. Love your wife by being respectful to her (Eph.5:25-29; 1Pet.3:7)
29. Love your wife by being considerate to her (1Pet.3:7)
30. Love your wife in an understanding way (1Pet.3:7)
31. Love your wife by bearing and enduring trials and tribulations (1Cor.13:7)
32. Love your wife by not being harsh with her (Col.3:19)
33. Love your wife by not being dictatorial, condescending, or patronizing to her (Eph.5:25-29)
34. Love your wife by not being embittered against her (Col.3:19)
35. Love your wife by not being jealous of her (1Cor.13:4)
36. Love your wife by not bragging and being puffed up around her (1Cor.13:4)
37. Love your wife by not acting in an unbecoming manner around her (1Cor.13:5)
38. Love your wife by not seeking your own desires and satisfactions above hers (1Cor.13:5)
39. Love your wife by not divorcing her for any reason other than adultery (Mt.5:32; 19:6; 1Cor.7)
40. Love your wife by not introducing her to or involving her in sin (Mt.18:7; Lk.17:1)