έποπτεύσαντες aor. act. part. от έποπτεύω (G2029) взирать, наблюдать (см. 1 Peter 2:12). Temp, или причинное part. άγνήν асс. sing. от άγνός (G53) чистый, непорочный, целомудренный. Здесь подразумевается безупречное поведение жены (Kelly).
Verse 1 Peter 3:2. _CHASTE CONVERSATION - WITH FEAR._] While they see that ye join modesty, chastity, and the purest manners, to the fear of God. Or perhaps _fear_, φοβος, is taken, as in Ephesians 5:...
WHILE THEY BEHOLD YOUR CHASTE CONVERSATION - Your pure conduct. The word chaste here (ἁγνὴν hagnēn) refer’s to purity of conduct in all respects, and not merely to chastity properly so called. It i...
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...
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...
THE SILENT PREACHING OF A LOVELY LIFE (1 Peter 3:1-2)...
WHILE, &C. = Having beheld. App-133. CHASTE. Greek. _hagnos._ See 2 Corinthians 7:11. _ COUPLED_ WITH. in. App-104. FEAR. Here used in the sense of reverence. Compare Ephesians 5:33, where the verb...
_while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear_ On the verb "behold" see note on chap. 1 Peter 2:12. The word "coupled" is not in the Greek, and the true meaning of the word is that the...
ἘΠΟΠΤΕΎΣΑΝΤΕΣ, see note on 1 Peter 2:12. The idea of _seeing behind the scenes_ would aptly describe the husband’s opportunities of observing his wife’s character. But it may mean merely _looking on a...
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...
WHILE THEY BEHOLD YOUR CHASTE CONVERSATION— Dr. Heylin's translation here, though not literal, seems well to express the sense of the sacred writer: _While they behold your purity of manners, and the...
_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...
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. BEHOLD - on narrowly looking into it [ epopteusantes (G2029)]. CHASTE - free from all impurity. FEAR - reverential, toward your hu...
VERSE 2. WHILE THEY BEHOLD YOUR CHASTE CONVERSATION. That is, your conduct, the pure life you are living as a Christian woman. Possibly your course before your conversion appears before the husband's...
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....
3:2 conversation (o-5) Or 'manner of life.'...
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...
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...
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...
WHILE THEY BEHOLD... — The same curious word as in 1 Peter 2:12, and the tense, which is ill-represented by “while they behold,” sets us at the moment of the triumph of the wife’s conduct, literally;...
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,...
ἐποπτεύσαντες, _having contemplated_; see on 1 Peter 2:12. τὴν … ὑμῶν. ἐν φόβῳ, _cf._ 1 Peter 1:17 and Ephesians 5:21. ὑποτασσόμενοι ἀλλήλοις ἐν φόβῳ Χριστοῦ · αἱ γυναῖκες : as no object is expressed,...
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...
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...
2_While they behold _For minds, however alienated from the true faith, are subdued, when they see the good conduct of believers; for as they understood not the doctrine of Christ, they form an estimat...
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...
WHILE THEY BEHOLD YOUR CHASTE CONVERSATION,.... Cheerful subjection, strong affection, and inviolable attachment to them, and strict regard to the honour of the marriage state, and to the preserving o...
While they behold your chaste conversation _coupled_ with fear. Ver. 2. _Whiles they behold_] Curiously pry into. Carnal men watch the carriages of prolessors, and spend many thoughts about them. _...
_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...
CHASTE CONVERSATION; pure deportment. FEAR; a reverential demeanor, such as becomes the wife. Compare verses 1 Peter 3:5-6. The salvation of relatives should be earnestly sought, and a uniformly Chri...
WHILE THEY BEHOLD YOUR CHASTE CONVERSATION COUPLED WITH FEAR....
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 3:2 ‘as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior.'_ ‘OBSERVE' -‘look upon attentively' (Thayer p. 246) ‘Christian's life is being examined, scrutinized, watched and “eyed” by the no...
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...
CHASTE CONVERSATION; free from all manner of impurities, and any thing contrary to the marriage covenant. COUPLED WITH FEAR; such a fear or reverence of your husbands, whereby out of the fear of God,...
1 Peter 3:2 observe G2029 (G5660) your G5216 chaste G53 conduct G391 by G1722 fear G5401 behold -...
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...
‘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 3:2. HAVING BEHELD YOUR CHASTE BEHAVIOUR COUPLED WITH FEAR. On the force of the ‘beheld,' as implying close observation, see on 1 Peter 2:12, where the same term occurs. The behaviour is style...
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...
BEHOLDING (εποπτευσαντες). First aorist active participle of εποπτευω, for which see 1 Peter 2:12. See 1 Peter 2:12 also for αναστροφην manner of life).CHASTE (αγνην). Pure because "in fear" (εν φ...
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...
THEY WILL SEE. "Actions often speak louder than words!...
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
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 1:15; 1 Peter 2:12; 1 Peter 3:15; 1 Peter 3:16; 1 Peter 3:5;...
While they behold [ε π ο π τ ε υ σ α ν τ ε ς]. See on ch. 1 Peter 2:12. Conversation. See on ch. 1 Peter 1:15. Rev., behavior. Coupled with fear [ε ν φ ο β ω]. Lit., in fear....
Joined with a loving fear of displeasing them....