1 Peter 3:1
Likewise, ye wives, be submissive to your own husbands; in order that, if any do not believe the word, they shall be gained through the deportment of their wives, without the word;
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
2beholding your chaste deportment which is with reverence:
Cross References
Matthew 18:15But if thy brother may sin, go, and convict him between thee and him alone: if he may hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother:
Romans 7:2For a woman who is under her husband has been given to her husband by the law so long as he lives; but if the husband may die, she is free from the law of the husband.
1 Corinthians 7:16For what do you know, O wife, if you shall save your husband? And what do you know, O husband, if you shall save your wife?
1 Corinthians 11:3But I wish you to know, that Christ is the head of every man; and the man is the head of the woman, and 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 →