Knowing and Honoring Your Wife

In this passage, Peter exhorts husbands to treat their wives with knowledge, according to the will of God. Women are physically weaker, and the wise husband considers the biological difference between his wife and him in the relationship. Husbands should honor their wives because they are coheirs of the eschatological gift of life. Both husbands and wives can expect the same heavenly destiny. The seriousness of bestowing honor upon one’s wife is evident, in that husbands who refuse to do so will find that their prayers are hindered.