1 Peter 3:1
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Christian deportment is one of the most powerful means of promoting it.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET IT BE THE HIDDEN MAN OF THE HEART; instead of outward adornments visible to man, let it consist in the inward spiritual state of the heart, invisible to sense, which alone God regards. 1 Samuel 16:7. IN; consisting or lying in. THAT WHICH IS NOT CORRUPTIBLE-QUIET SPIRIT; or, the incorruptible... [ Continue Reading ]
CALLING HIM LORD; thus acknowledging her subjection to him as her rightful head. Genesis 18:12; 1 CORINTHIANS 11:3. AMAZEMENT; such apprehension of danger as would prevent them from doing their duty. The most excellent, lovely, and enduring ornaments of women are not those which are external, but t... [ Continue Reading ]
ACCORDING TO KNOWLEDGE; knowledge of the nature and duties of the marriage relation. GIVING HONOR; due respect, kind attention, and affectionate assistance; such as love guided by wisdom dictates. HEIRS TOGETHER; mutual partakers of divine grace, equally entitles to the blessings of the gospel. Da... [ Continue Reading ]
Quoted from Psalms 34:12-16.... [ Continue Reading ]
ESCHEW; avoid. ENSUE; follow, practise.... [ Continue Reading ]
OVER THE RIGHTEOUS; for their protection and benefit. AGAINST THEM; he disapproves and will punish them.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL HARM YOU; the general effect of a righteous life is to deter men from harming us. Even should wicked men persecute us for righteousness' sake, God will overrule this for our good, as Peter immediately shows.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAPPY; MATTHEW 5:10. OF THEIR TERROR; of any evil which they threaten. This, and the first clause of the next verse, are taken from Isaiah 8:12-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
SANCTIFY THE LORD GOD; treat him as God, trust in him to protect you and do for you what you need. TO GIVE AN ANSWER; state the reasons why you believe the gospel, and hope to be saved by it.... [ Continue Reading ]
A GOOD CONSCIENCE; one that is enlightened, whose dictates you follow, and whose approbation you enjoy. THEY; the wicked. GOOD CONVERSATION; consistent life. So great is human wickedness that men will often be called to suffer for doing right; but instead of being discouraged, they should, with gr... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE FLESH; in his human nature. QUICKENED; made alive again; raised from the dead. BY THE SPIRIT; his own divine Spirit. John 10:17-18.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY WHICH; divine Spirit. HE WENT AND PREACHED; by Noah. UNTO THE SPIRITS; which, when Peter wrote, were confined in torment as in a prison. Matthew 5:25-26.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH SOMETIME WERE DISOBEDIENT; when they were alive on the earth, and Christ, by Noah, preached to them during the building of the ark. WHEREIN; in the ark. EIGHT SOULS; Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives. Genesis 7:7 WERE SAVED; through believing and obeying God, preparing an ar... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LIKE FIGURE WHEREUNTO, EVEN BAPTISM; or, baptism, the antitype of which; that is, baptism which was in a certain way foreshadowed in the salvation of Noah and his family by water. NOT THE PUTTING AWAY OF THE FILTH OF THE FLESH; it is not the use of water merely, or the purifying of the body tha... [ Continue Reading ]
GONE INTO HEAVEN;, as the forerunner and intercessor of his people, and head over all things to his church. Hebrews 6:20 _; Hebrews 7:25_ _;_ _ MATTHEW 28:18_... [ Continue Reading ]