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.
dwell with them according to knowledge: "Dwell" (sunoikeo) means "to dwell together (Vulg. cohabito): of the domestic association and intercourse of husband and wife" (Thayer 605-2-4924). The marriage, the dwelling with, is to be done in a certain manner: it is to be according to knowledge. It is to be with an intelligent recognition of the marriage relation (See also 1 Corinthians 7:1-5). "Knowledge" (gnosis) is "a seeking to know, enquiry, investigation" (Vine, Vol. II 301). Guy N. Woods says,