1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, all of you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
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Genesis 2:23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Proverbs 5:15Drink waters out of yours own cistern, and running waters out of yours own well.
Matthew 5:23Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has ought against you;
Matthew 19:3The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
1 Corinthians 7:3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Ephesians 3:6That the Gentiles should be join heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by 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 →