1 Peter 3:7
And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.
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Genesis 2:23And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.
Proverbs 5:15Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.
Matthew 5:23If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you,
Matthew 19:3And certain Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, Is it right for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
1 Corinthians 7:3Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.
Ephesians 3:6Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in 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 →