Holy women; and therefore worthy of imitation. Who trusted in God; whose only hope was in God, and therefore their care to please him. Adorned themselves; viz. with a meek and quiet spirit, counting that the best ornament.
Verse 1 Peter 3:5. _FOR AFTER THIS MANNER_] Simplicity reigned in primitive times; _natural ornaments_ alone were then in use. Trade and commerce brought in luxuries; and luxury brought _pride_, and...
FOR AFTER THIS MANNER, IN THE OLD TIME - The allusion here is particularly to the times of the patriarchs, and the object of the apostle is to state another reason why they should seek that kind of or...
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 marriage...
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...
Let not your adornment be an outward thing of braided hair and ornaments of gold and wearing of robes, but let it be an adornment of the inward personality of the heart, wrought by the unfading loveli...
THE SILENT PREACHING OF A LOVELY LIFE (1 Peter 3:1-2)...
AFTER THIS, &C. = thus in the old time. thus once. TRUSTED. hoped. ADORNED. used to adorn (Imperfect). Greek. _kosmeo._ See 1 Timothy 2:9. UNTO. to....
_For after this manner in the old time_ It is obvious from the special instance given in the next verse that the Apostle has in his mind exclusively the saintly wives and mothers of the Old Testament....
ΑἹ ἍΓΙΑΙ ΓΥΝΑΙ͂ΚΕΣ perhaps = _women of the chosen people_....
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...
ΟΎΤΩΣ (G3779) итак, тайим образом, так. ΠΟΤΕ (G4218) в то время, прежде, ΆΓΙΑΙ _пот. pl. от_ ΆΓΙΟΣ (G40) святой, ΈΛΠΊΖΟΥΣΑΙ _praes. act. part. (adj.) пот. fem. pl._ от ΈΛΠΊΖΩ (G1679) надеяться, ΈΚΌ...
_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...
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: AFTER THIS MANNER - with the ornament of a meek and...
VERSE 5. FOR AFTER THIS MANNER IN THE OLD TIME. The manner just described; that is, not with outward adorning, but in the cultivation of the graces of the Spirit. The holy women, the women who truste...
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....
3:5 subject (n-16) Not the aorist, a particular act, as in ch. 2.13, but the present participle, an habitual state, as in ch. 2.18. hoped (p-9) 'Have hoped' is present, characterizing the woman....
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 teac...
TRUSTED] RV 'hoped.' Hope, the Messianic spirit, was characteristic of the OT. saints....
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...
What Peter wrote in verses 1-4 is not new. It is true for all women in every country at all times. Abraham and Sarah lived nearly 2000 years before Peter wrote this letter. You can read about them in...
FOR AFTER THIS MANNER. — Here we have not only _the_ ground of the foregoing precepts, but also of the assurance that God sets a value on such embellishments. It had been accepted by Him in the holy w...
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...
ποτε refers vaguely to O.T. history as part of αἱ … θεόν. References to the holy women of the O.T. are rare in N.T. and this appeal to their example illustrates the affinity of Peter to Heb. (Hebrews...
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,...
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 t...
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 k...
(4) For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: (4) An argument taken from the example of women, an...
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...
He sets before them the example of pious women, who sought for spiritual adorning rather than outward meretricious ornaments. But he mentions Sarah above all others, who, having been the mother of all...
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...
FOR AFTER THIS MANNER IN THE OLD TIME,.... In ages past, the years of many generations, since the time that God created man upon earth; in the times before the flood, and after it; in the times of the...
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: Ver. 5. _Who trusted in God_] And therefore would not b...
_For after this manner_ Namely, with inward holiness and outward plainness; _in old time_ In the patriarchal ages; _the holy women who trusted in God_ And therefore did not act thus from servile fear,...
FOR AFTER THIS MANNER IN THE OLD TIME THE HOLY WOMEN ALSO, WHO TRUSTED IN GOD, ADORNED THEMSELVES, BEING IN SUBJECTION UNTO THEIR OWN HUSBANDS;...
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 3:5 ‘For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands.'_ ‘FOR IN THIS WAY' -i.e. the meek and quiet spi...
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 3:5 For G1063 manner G3779 times G4218 holy G40 women G1135 who G3588 trusted G1679 (G5723) in...
‘For in a similar way in the past the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you no...
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...
1 Peter 3:5. FOR THUS IN OLD TIME ALSO DID THE HOLY WOMEN WHO HOPED IN GOD ADORN THEMSELVES, SUBMITTING THEMSELVES TO THEIR OWN HUSBANDS. The example of the women whose lives are recorded in the ancie...
ADORNED THEMSELVES (εκοσμουν εαυτας). Imperfect active of customary action, "used to adorn themselves." Κοσμεω is old verb from κοσμος in the sense in verse 1 Peter 3:3. See Hebrews 11:11; Hebrews 1...
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: Worldl...
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...
FOR THE DEVOUT WOMAN. "Those devout women of the past whose names are in the Scripture made themselves beautiful in this way!...
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 fo...
1 Peter 3:2; 1 Samuel 2:1; 1 Timothy 2:10; 1 Timothy 2:15; 1 Timoth
Adorned [ε κ ο σ μ ο υ ν]. Imperfect tense. Were accustomed to adorn....
The adorning of those holy women, who trusted in God, and therefore did not act thus from servile fear, was, Their meek subjection to their husbands: Their quiet spirit, "not afraid," or amazed: and T...
Our apostle in these two verses enforces the exhortation and advice given to women in the foregoing verses, namely, to attire themselves with outward modesty and inward meekness, by. twofold argument:...