1 Peter 3:5

For so also the holy women of old, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, and were subject to their husbands:

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

In Context

4But adorn yourselves in the hidden person of the heart, with a mild and uncorrupted spirit, an ornament that is precious before God.

6just as Sarah was subject to Abraham, and called him, My lord: whose daughters ye are, by good works, while ye are not terrified by any fear.

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Cross References

Luke 2:37and was a widow of about eighty and four years, and departed not from the temple, but worshipped by day and by night with fasting and prayer;

Acts 1:14All these unitedly persevered in prayer, with one soul, together with the women, and with Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

1 Timothy 2:10but with good works, as becometh women who profess reverence for God.

1 Timothy 5:5Now she who is truly a widow, and solitary, her hope is in God; and she persevereth in prayers, and in supplications, by night and by day:

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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