1 Peter 3:1
Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your husbands; so that, if any do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the behaviour of the wives;
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2When they behold your chaste and reverent behaviour.
Cross References
Matthew 18:15If your brother shall sin against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone: if he shall hear you, you have gained your brother.
Romans 7:2For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband dies, she is released from the law concerning her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:16For how do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how do you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?
1 Corinthians 11:3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
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 →