1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, bestowing honor on the wife as the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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Matthew 5:23If, therefore, you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has any thing against you,
Matthew 19:3And the Pharisees came to him to tempt him, and said to him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
1 Corinthians 7:3Let the husband render to the wife that which is due, and likewise, also, the wife to the husband.
Ephesians 3:6that the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in the Christ, through the gospel,
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 →