1 Peter 3:5
For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
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1 Samuel 2:1Hannah prayed, and said:"My heart exults in the Lord!My horn is exalted in the Lord.My mouth is enlarged over my enemies,because I rejoice in your salvation.
Proverbs 31:30Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain;but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.TAV
Luke 2:37and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who did not depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
Acts 1:14All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
1 Timothy 2:10but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.
1 Timothy 5:5Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and 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 →