1 Peter 3:1
In this way, you who are wives should submit to your own husbands. Do this so even if some men are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word, through their wives' behavior.
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2For they will have seen your sincere behavior with respect.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16To the woman he said, 1 “I will greatly multiply your pain in having children; 1 it is in pain that you will give birth to children. 1 Your desire will be for your husband, but he will rule over you.”
Proverbs 11:30The righteous person will be like a tree of life, 1 but violence takes away lives. 1
Matthew 18:15If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you will have gained your brother.
Romans 7:2For the married woman is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
1 Corinthians 7:16For how do you know, woman, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, man, whether you will save your wife?
1 Corinthians 11:3Now I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, that a man is the head of a woman, and that God is the head of Christ.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 3:1
Wherein the apostle describes the duties of husbands and wives one to another, beginning with the duty of the wife, ver. 1-7 . He exhorts Christians to unity, love, compassion, peace, and patience under sufferings; to oppose the slanders of their enemies, not by returning evil for evil, or railing for railing, but by blessing; by a ready account of their faith and hope, and by keeping a good conscience, ver. 8-17 . To encourage them to this, he proposes the example of Christ, who suffered, the just for the unjust,… Read the whole commentary →