What does 1 Peter 3:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;"
Verse 1 Peter 3:3. _WHOSE ADORNING_] κοσμος. Hebrews 9:1, where the word κοσμος, _world_ or _ornament_, is defined; and also the note on _"_Genesis 2:1_"_. _PLAITING THE HAIR, AND OF WEARING OF GOLD...
WHOSE ADORNING - Whose ornament. The apostle refers here to a propensity which exists in the heart of woman to seek that which would be esteemed ornamental, or that which will appear well in the sight...
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...
THE SILENT PREACHING OF A LOVELY LIFE (1 Peter 3:1-2)...
ADORNING. Greek. _kosmos._ Elsewhere translated "world". See App-129. THAT, &C. = the outward one. PLAITING. Greek. _emploke._ Only here. WEARING. putting around. Greek. _perithesis._ Only here. Re...
_that outward adorning of plaiting the hair_ So St Paul lays stress in 1 Timothy 2:9 on the "braided hair and gold and pearls" which were at the time conspicuous in the toilet of Greek and Roman women...
B. SOCIAL DUTIES. 1 Peter 2:13 to 1 Peter 3:12 13 This warfare against heathen principles of living does not mean the subversion of the necessary bonds of society. Rather it deepens and intensifies...
ΈΣΤΩ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть, ΈΞΩΘΕΝ (G1855) внешний, ΕΜΠΛΟΚΉ (G1708) плетеный, ΤΡΙΧΏΝ _gen. pl. от_ ΘΡΊΞ, ΤΡΙΧΌΣ (G2359) волосы. Плетение волос и яркие одежды были признаком пос...
WHOSE ADORNING, LET IT NOT BE, &C.— That nothing may be wanting to the qualifying of a Christian wife, she is taught how to dress herself; supposing a general desire, but especially in that sex, of or...
_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...
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 'To whom let there belong (namely, as their ornament) not the outward a...
VERSE 3. WHOSE ADORNING. Even the dress of a Christian wife claims apostolic notice. Nothing seems to have escaped the attention of this servant of Christ. OUTWARD ADORNING OF PLAITING THE HAIR. Her...
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....
THE BLESSEDNESS OF CHRIST'S PEOPLE, THOUGH THEY SHOULD SUFFER LIKE CHRIST _B_ (iii). 1 Peter 3:1. Another divinely created ordinance of man is marriage. One of the purposes of Christianity was to tea...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 WIVES AND HUSBANDS v1 You wives must respect and obey your own husbands. Some husbands do not obey God’s word. When they see your good beh...
WHOSE ADORNING LET IT NOT BE.... — The passage shows that the Asiatic Christians were not all of the poorer classes. Many of the wealthy Jewesses had joined them. The wealth of the Ephesian Christians...
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...
(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; (3) He condemns the unrestrained indulgences and excesses of women,...
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 con...
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...
3_Whose adorning _The other part of the exhortation is, that wives are to adorn themselves sparingly and modestly: for we know that they are in this respect much more curious and ambitious than they o...
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...
WHOSE ADORNING, LET IT NOT BE THAT OUTWARD ADORNING,.... Or that only and principally; let not that be solely or chiefly attended to, nor anxiously sought after, nor ever in order to allure and ensnar...
Whose adorning let it not be that outward _adorning_ of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; Ver. 3. _Whose adorning_] _Mundus muliebris._ A woman's world. See Isai...
_Whose adorning_, &c, See note on 1 Timothy 2:9; Titus 2:3. “Three things are here expressly forbidden: _curling the hair, wearing gold_, (by way of ornament,) and _putting_ on costly or gay _apparel....
EXHORTATIONS TO THE MARRIED....
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 3:3 ‘And let not your adornment be merely external---braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses.'_ ‘AND LET NOT YOUR ADORNMENT BE MERELY EXTERNAL' -Peter mentions the...
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...
LET IT NOT BE; let it not be chiefly, or not so much the adorning of the outward man as the inward; the negative here is to be taken as a comparative, as EXODUS 16:8 LUKE 14:12. The apostle doth not a...
Tertullian De Corona For what is a crown on the head of a woman, but beauty made seductive, but mark of utter wantonness,-a notable casting away of modesty, a setting temptation on fire? Therefore a...
1 Peter 3:3 not G3756 let G2077 your G3739 adornment G2889 be G2077 (G5749) arranging G1708 hair G2359 G2532 wearing G4025 gold G5553 or G2228 on G1745 apparel G2440 adorning - 1 Timothy 2:9-10; Titu...
WIVES ARE TO SUBMIT IN OBEDIENCE TO THEIR HUSBANDS WHO ARE TO RESPOND WITH COMPASSION AND CARE BECAUSE THEY ARE JOINT-HEIRS OF THE GRACE OF LIFE (1 PETER 3:1). Peter's view of the new people of God (h...
When Paul defines the duties of bond-servants, he balances his statement by a corresponding exposition of the duties of masters (Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 4:1). Peter, dealing here specially with the...
WHOSE ADORNING (ων κοσμος). Genitive plural of the relative referring to γυναικων (wives). Κοσμος has here its old meaning of ornament (cf. our cosmetics), not the common one of world (John 17:5) c...
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...
YOU SHOULD NOT USE. Peter's meaning is: "No amount of ostentatious display can substitute for a gracious Christian personality!" In the Bible, modesty always has to do with "overdressing to the point...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 3:3 DO NOT LET YOUR ADORNING BE EXTERNAL. Examples of “external... adorning” can be seen in portraits and sculptures from the first century. The elaborate BRAIDING OF women’s H...
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 Timothy 2:10; 1 Timothy 2:9; 2 Kings 9:30; Esther 5:1; Exodus 3:22; Exodus 32:2; Exodus 33:4; Exodus 35:22; Exodus 38:8; Ezekiel 16:7;...
Of plaiting [ε μ π λ ο κ η ς]. Only here in New Testament. Compare 1 Timothy 2:9. The Roman women of the day were addicted to ridiculous extravagance in the adornment of the hair. Juvenal (" Satire, ...
Three things are here expressly forbidden: curling the hair, wearing gold, (by way of ornament,) and putting on costly or gay apparel. These, therefore, ought never to be allowed, much less defended,...
Our apostle's next advice, here given to wives, is concerning their attire; this is laid down, first, negatively, what it should not be, not an outward adorning, attended with great curiousity and exa...