1 Peter 3:7
In the same way, you husbands should live with your wives according to understanding, as with a weaker container, a woman. You should give them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. Do this so that your prayers will not be hindered.
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8Finally, all of you, be likeminded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, and humble.
Cross References
Genesis 2:23The man said, 1 “This time, this one is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. 1 She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of man.”
Proverbs 5:15Drink water from your own cistern 1 and drink running water from your own well. 1
Matthew 5:23Therefore if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has anything against you,
Matthew 19:3Pharisees came to him, testing him, saying to him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?”
1 Corinthians 7:3The husband should give to the wife her sexual rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
Ephesians 3:6This hidden truth is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and they share the promise in Christ Jesus 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 →