1 Peter 3:7
[Ye] husbands likewise, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, as with a weaker, [even] the female, vessel, giving [them] honour, as also fellow-heirs of [the] grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
8Finally, [be] all of one mind, sympathising, full of brotherly love, tender hearted, humble minded;
Cross References
Genesis 2:23And Man said, This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: this shall be called Woman, because this was taken out of a man.
Proverbs 5:15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Matthew 5:23If therefore thou shouldest offer thy gift at the altar, and there shouldest remember that thy brother has something against thee,
Matthew 19:3And the Pharisees came to him tempting him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
1 Corinthians 7:3Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.
Ephesians 3:6that [they who are of] the nations should be joint heirs, and a joint body, and joint partakers of [his] promise in Christ Jesus by the glad tidings;
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 →