1 Peter 3:5
For in this way, in past times also, holy women adorned themselves, hoping in God, being subject to their own husbands.
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1 Samuel 2:1“My heart exults in the Lord, and my horn is exalted in my God. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies. For I have rejoiced in your salvation.
Proverbs 31:30Charm is false, and beauty is vain. The woman who fears the Lord, the same shall be praised.
Luke 2:37And then she was a widow, even to her eighty-fourth year. And without departing from the temple, she was a servant to fasting and prayer, night and day.
Acts 1:14All these were persevering with one accord in prayer with the women, and with Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
1 Timothy 2:10but in a manner proper for women who are professing piety by means of good works.
1 Timothy 5:5But she who is truly a widow and is destitute, let her hope in God, and let her be urgent in supplications 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 →