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.
and as being heirs together of the grace of life: The text (verse 7) indicates that both the husband and the wife are Christians. They are joint-heirs or co-inheritors since they two are one.