1 Peter 3:6

just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You have become her children if you do good and do not give way to fear.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

In Context

5For this is how the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves in the past, by submitting to their own husbands,

7Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker partner, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:69Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant girl came to him and said, “Yoʋ also were with Jesus the Galilean.”

Acts 4:19But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge.

Galatians 4:22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman.

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 →

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