1 Peter 3:7
Likewise the husbands living together knowledgably, as with a weaker vessel, apportioning worth to the female as also joint-heirs of the grace of life, for your prayers not to be hindered.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8And finally, all be like-minded, sympathetic, brother-loving, compassionate, friendly,
Cross References
Genesis 2:23And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Proverbs 5:15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Matthew 5:23If therefore thou should bring thy gift to the altar, and remember there that thy brother has anything against thee,
Matthew 19:3And Pharisees came to him, trying him, and saying to him, Is it permitted for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?
1 Corinthians 7:3Let the husband render the goodwill owed to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband.
Ephesians 3:6For Gentiles to be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and fellow partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good-news.
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 →