Clarence Simmons explains in this video that husbands need to repent if they have not carried out their responsibility for protecting, providing for, and loving their wives. They should not be neglecting their wife. And yet, if there is no repentance, there is no change. Take a hard, long look at your marriage and ask yourself how you can bless your wife and strengthen your marriage.

1 Peter 3:7 (NKJV) - "Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered."

The bottom line is the husband needs to repent. He needs to repent and carry out his God-given duty. I mean, he's a husband regardless. He's the head regardless because God made it that way. The husband is the head of the wife and he has a awesome, even a scary responsibility in being able to shepherd and guide and even protect and provide for his wife, treating her as Christ would treat the church.

He has to also give sacrifice and that's usually what the neglect is. I'm not sacrificially giving myself to my wife. In other words, I'm not doing what I'm supposed to do. And so that's the struggle. So we have to get that issue and we have to repent.

If there's no repentance, there will not be any change. And if there's no change, you