You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel: "Giving" in this case refers "to assign, portion out" (Thayer 66-1-632). Christian husbands are to regard their wives as precious, giving them honor (time), thus showing their wives they value them. How many problems would be solved if Christian husbands would let their wives know they honored them. The honor is due because of the wife’s preciousness and of the husband’s recognition of his wife’s being the weaker vessel physically (1 Thessalonians 4:4).