1 Peter 3:7
Husbands, 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.
Text-Critical English NT
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In Context
8Finally, you must all be of one mind, sympathetic, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, and kind.
Cross References
Matthew 5:23So if yoʋ are offering yoʋr gift at the altar and there remember that yoʋr brother has something against yoʋ,
Matthew 19:3Then the Pharisees came up to Jesus and tested him by asking him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
1 Corinthians 7:3The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.
Ephesians 3:6This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of God's promise in Christ through 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 →