What does 1 Peter 3:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"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;"
1 PETER 3:1 @ai`# {C} The weight of external evidence is rather evenly balanced for and against the presence of the article, which perhaps was omitted by scribes in order to indicate more clearly th...
CHAPTER III. _The duty of wives to their husbands, how they are to be_ _adorned, and be in subjection as Sarah was to Abraham_, 1-6. _The duty of husbands to their wives_, 7. _How to obtain happin...
LIKEWISE, YE WIVES, BE IN SUBJECTION TO YOUR OWN HUSBANDS - On the duty here enjoined, see the 1 Corinthians 11:3 notes, and Ephesians 5:22 note. THAT, IF ANY OBEY NOT THE WORD - The word of God; the...
III. CHRIST THE PATTERN FOR HIS SAINTS CHAPTER 2:11-3:9 _ 1. Abstinence and submission (1 Peter 2:11)_ 2. Christ the pattern for those who suffer (1 Peter 2:18) 3. Glorifying Christ in the marriag...
This counsel to wives and husbands is full of a fine courtesy, and true chivalry, and shows how the new leaven is at work in the thought of the Church. It is not only a contrast to paganism, but has t...
Likewise, you wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that, if there are any who refuse to believe the word, they may be won for Christ without a word because they have seen your pure and reverent b...
_ BE_ IN SUBJECTION. submit, as 1 Peter 2:13. HUSBANDS. App-123. THAT. in order that. Greek. _hina._ IF. App-118. ANY. Plural of _tis_. App-123. OBEY NOT. are disobedient to. Greek. _apeitheo._ S...
_Likewise, ye wives_ The sequence of thought is every way suggestive. The Apostle passes from the all but universal relation of the master and the slave as one element of social life, to the other, ye...
ὉΜΟΊΩΣ. In accordance with the same principle of submission to God’s ordinances for mankind. The wife, like the slave, was raised to new dignity by the Gospel; and, especially in cases where the husba...
ΟΜΟΊΩΣ (G3668) _adv._ подобным образом, подобно этому, относится к отрывку о рабах. ΎΠΟΤΑΣΣΌΜΕΝΑΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΥΠΟΤΆΣΣΟΜΑΙ (G5293) подчиняться, повиноваться. _Сопутств. part._ в роли...
LIKEWISE YE WIVES, &C.— The _tabernacle of the sun_ is set high in the heavens; but it is, that it may have influence below upon the earth: and the _word of God,_ which is spoken of there immediately...
_3. TOWARD HUSBANDS 3:1_-6 1 Peter 3:1-2 In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of t...
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; LIKEWISE, [ Homoios (G3664)] - 'i...
21 Following in the footprints left by our Lord while He was on earth is often taken as the ideal of human deportment for believers in Christ. And so it is-for the Circumcision, to whom Peter writes....
3:1 subject (n-4) Not the aorist, a particular act, as in ch. 2.13, but the present participle, an habitual state, as in ch. 2.18. conversation (o-27) Or 'manner of life.'...
LIKEWISE] cp. 1 Peter 3:7, the whole household is to be one family; the subjection of servants to masters has a like excellence with the subjection of wives to husbands. WITHOUT THE WORD] 'Perhaps the...
A Christian wife must live a holy life (1 Peter 1:15). She should respect and obey her husband, even if he still does not obey God. But sometimes her husband may tell her to do something that is a *si...
III. (1) LIKEWISE YE WIVES... — Third division of second prudential rule: subordination conjugal. Here, again, the form in the original is participial, joining this injunction on to 1 Peter 2:13; 1 Pe...
CHAPTER 9 CHRISTIAN WIVES AND HUSBANDS 1 Peter 3:1 THE Apostle gave at first 1 Peter 2:13 the rule of Christian submission generally; then proceeded to apply it to the cases of citizens and of serva...
Duty of wives (Ephesians 5:21-24; Colossians 3:18; Titus 2:4) Submissiveness and true adornment. τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν, _your own husbands_, the motive for submissiveness, Ephesians 5:22; Titus 2:4. St...
CHRISTIAN FAMILY-LIFE 1 Peter 3:1 In the previous chapter the Apostle had been urging the poor slaves of wealthy householders to submit quietly to wrongs, leaving God to vindicate. Here he turns to...
The marriage relation was then dealt with, and special emphasis was laid on the fact that the true adornment of woman is found in her character rather than in her dress. Husbands are charged to dwell...
SUBMISSION APPLIED TO WIVES Peter continues, in 1 Peter 3:1, to give instructions on submission, as the word "likewise" would indicate. In 2:13 he dealt with government and in 2:18 with masters. God...
Likewise, (1) ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; (2) that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; (1) In the third place he...
_Let wives, &c. In the first six verses he gives instructions to married women. 1. By their modest and submissive dispositions to endeavour to gain and convert their husbands, shewing them such a resp...
CONTENTS The greater Part of this Chapter is Exhortation. Some few, but deep Things of Divine Truths, towards the Close of this Chapter, are touched upon....
The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
He proceeds now to another instance of subjection, and bids wives to be subject to their husbands. And as those seemed to have some pretense for shaking off the yoke, who were united to unbelieving me...
After this general exhortation, brief but important to believers, the apostle takes up the relative walk of Christians in a world where on the one hand God watches over all, yet where He permits His o...
LIKEWISE, YE WIVES, BE IN SUBJECTION TO YOUR OWN HUSBANDS,.... As well as subjects to princes, and servants to masters; though not with the same sort of subjection, but what is suitable to the relatio...
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; Ver. 1. _Be in subjection to your...
_Likewise_ As I have exhorted servants to be in subjection to their masters, I in like manner say, _Ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands_ In all things just and lawful; _that if any_ (he sp...
BE IN SUBJECTION TO YOUR OWN HUSBANDS; treat them as the rightful head of the family. THE WORD; the Scriptures and the preaching of the gospel. BE WON; led to embrace the gospel....
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that, if any obey not the Word, they may also without the word be won by the conversation of the wives,...
There is similar instruction for wives, for theirs is the subject place, certainly not as slaves to a master, but as joined to their "own husbands," a most-intimate and precious relationship. Because...
_ 1 Peter 3:1 ‘In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without. word by the behavior of their wives,'_ ‘...
1-7 The wife must discharge her duty to her own husband, though he obey not the word. We daily see how narrowly evil men watch the ways and lives of professors of religion. Putting on of apparel is n...
1 PETER CHAPTER 3 1 PETER 3:1 The apostle teacheth the duty of wives and husbands, 1 PETER 3:8 exhorting all men to unity and love, and to return good for evil, 1 PETER 3:14 to suffer boldly for right...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden m...
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‘In the same way, you who are wives, be subject in obedience to your own husbands, so that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behaviour of their wives, beholdin...
1 Peter 3:1. IN LIKE MANNER, YE WIVES, SUBMIT YOURSELVES. Literally, it is ‘submitting yourselves,' this conjugal duty being represented as on the same plane with the former, and simply another applic...
IN LIKE MANNER (ομοιως). Adverb closely connected with υποτασσομενο, for which see 1 Peter 2:18.YE WIVES (γυναικες). Without article. About wives see also Colossians 3:18; Ephesians 5:22; Titus 2...
1 Peter 3:1. _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; while they behold your c...
CONTENTS: Duties of husbands and wives toward one another. Exhortations to Christian consistency. Christ's vicarious sacrifice. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Sara, Abraham. CONCLUSION: World...
1 Peter 3:1. _Ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands._ The same words occur in Ephesians 5:22. Col 3:18. The excellence of piety is pleaded here, as the first ornament of a wife. Wisdom conne...
IN THE SAME WAY. "As I have instructed servants to submit to their masters." YOU WIVES. Some think Peter assumes his readers have already seen Paul's Letter to the Ephesians. Compare Ephesians 5:21-24...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 3:1 A husband is to be the leader in the home (compare Ephesians 5:22; Colossians 3:18). A wife is to BE SUBJECT TO (see 1 Peter 3:5) and follow her husband’s leadership. If a...
THE CHRISTIAN SPIRIT IN SOCIAL RELATIONS _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE main contention of St. Peter is that the Christian life and obligations are not intended to be, and never should be, made...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 3:1 LIKEWISE, YE WIVES. St. Peter has spoken of the duties of servants: why does he omit those of masters? There must have been Christian masters in Asia Minor, as is plain from...
Shall we turn now to First Peter chapter three as Peter addresses himself to the wives? This particular section goes back to verse thirteen of chapter two, Submit yourself to every ordinance of man f...
1 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Corinthians 14:34; 1 Corinthians 7:16; 1 Corinthians 9:19; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 4:17; 1 Timothy 2:11; 1 Timothy 2:12; 2 Thessalonians 1:8
Likewise [ο μ ο ι ω ς]. Rev., in like manner; better, because likewise in popular speech has, wrongly, the sense of also. Peter means in like manner with servants (ch. 2 18). Be in subjection [υ π ο...
If any — He speaks tenderly. Won — Gained over to Christ....
Our apostle having, in the foregoing chapter, entered upon an exhortation to the practice of relative duties, particularly of subjects towards their rulers, and of servants towards their masters, he c...