1 Peter 3:7
Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel, and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 2:23And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.
Proverbs 5:15Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
Matthew 5:23If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother hath any thing against thee;
Matthew 19:3And there came to him the Pharisees 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 the debt to his wife, and the wife also in like manner to the husband.
Ephesians 3:6That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and co-partners of his promise in Christ Jesus, by 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 →