1 Peter 3:1
Ye women likewise, be subject to your own husbands, that if any believe not the word, they may yet without the word be gained over by the deportment of the wives,
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
2beholding your chaste conversation in the fear of God.
Cross References
Matthew 18:15And if thy brother trespass against thee, go and expostulate with him alone; if he hearken to thee, thou hast gained thy brother:
Romans 7:2For a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband die, she is discharged from the law of her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:16But God hath called us to peace; for how knowest thou, O wife, but thou shalt save thy husband; or how knowest thou, O husband, but thou shalt save thy wife?
1 Corinthians 11:3But I would have you know that Christ is the head of every man; 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 →