1 Peter 3:1
Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they may, without the word, be won by the conduct of their wives,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2by observing your blameless and reverential conduct.
Cross References
Matthew 18:15And if your brother sin against you, go and tell him of his fault between you and him alone; if he hear you, you have gained your brother.
Romans 7:2For the woman that has a husband, is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives: but if her husband die, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:16For how do you know, O wife, but that you may save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, but that you may save your wife?
1 Corinthians 11:3But I wish you to know, that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 3:1
Wherein the apostle describes the duties of husbands and wives one to another, beginning with the duty of the wife, ver. 1-7 . He exhorts Christians to unity, love, compassion, peace, and patience under sufferings; to oppose the slanders of their enemies, not by returning evil for evil, or railing for railing, but by blessing; by a ready account of their faith and hope, and by keeping a good conscience, ver. 8-17 . To encourage them to this, he proposes the example of Christ, who suffered, the just for the unjust,… Read the whole commentary →