1 Peter 3:7
Ye husbands likewise, dwell with them according to knowledge, yielding due respect to the wife as the weaker vessel, and as joint-heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
6whose daughters ye are, if ye do well, and are not terrified with any sinful fear.
Cross References
Matthew 5:23Therefore, if thou bring thine offering to the altar, and there remembrest that thy brother hath any complaint against thee;
Matthew 19:3And the pharisees came to Him to ensnare Him, and asked Him, whether it was lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
1 Corinthians 7:3Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence; and in like manner also the wife to the husband.
Ephesians 3:6and of the same body, and joint-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 →