1 Peter 3:5
For this way formerly also, the holy women, trusting in God, adorned themselves, being subordinate to their own husbands,
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1 Samuel 2:1And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart exults in LORD. My horn is exalted in LORD. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies because I rejoice in thy salvation.
Proverbs 31:30Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, [but] a woman who fears LORD, she shall be praised.
Luke 2:37and this woman was a widow to eighty-four years), who did not depart from the temple, serving with fastings and supplications night and day.
Acts 1:14All these men were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
1 Timothy 2:10but (which is fitting for women professing godliness) through good works.
1 Timothy 5:5But the real widow, and made alone, has hoped in God, and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 3:2-8
Duties of Husbands and Wives. ( a. d. 66.) 1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. 3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet… Read the whole commentary →