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1 Peter 3:2

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fear of God;   Influence;   Righteousness;   Wife;   Thompson Chain Reference - Modesty;   Virtues;   Womanhood, Crowning Qualities of;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Marriage;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Chastity;   Conduct, Christian;   Wives;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wife;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Head, Headship;   Marriage;   Purity;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Wife;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chaste;   Fear;   Marriage;   Meekness;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   1 Peter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Conversation;   Marriage;   Mystery;   Peter, First Epistle of;   Purity;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Example;   Family;   Liberty;   Marriage;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Behavior;   Beholding;   Couple;   Essenes, the;   Peter, the Second Epistle of;   Reverence;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 14;  

Contextual Overview

1Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, 1 Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, 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 a word by the behavior of their wives, 1Ladies, you need to respect your husbands in the same way. Even if some of them ain't riding for the Lord, your godly living will speak words that mouths cannot. Your right living will win 'em over. 1 Wives, be ruled by your husbands; so that even if some of them give no attention to the word, their hearts may be changed by the behaviour of their wives, 1 Likewise, wives, [be] subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without [the] word by the conversation of the wives, 1 In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be gained by the behavior of their wives without a word; 1 In like manner, ye wives, be subject 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 Married women, in the same way, be submissive to your husbands, so that even if some of them disbelieve the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over by the daily life of their wives, after watching your daily life-- 1 Likewise, ye wiues, be in subiection to your owne husbands, that if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be wonne by the conuersation of the wiues:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

behold: 1 Peter 3:16, 1 Peter 1:15, 1 Peter 2:12, Philippians 1:27, Philippians 3:20, 1 Timothy 4:12, 2 Peter 3:11

with: 1 Peter 3:5, 1 Peter 3:6, 1 Peter 3:15, Ephesians 5:33, Ephesians 6:5, Colossians 3:22

Reciprocal: Matthew 6:29 - even John 15:16 - that your 1 Corinthians 7:16 - O wife James 3:13 - a good

Cross-References

Psalms 58:4
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
Psalms 58:4
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
Psalms 58:4
They have venom like the venom of a serpent;Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
Psalms 58:4
They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
Psalms 58:4
They haue poyson [within them] lyke to the poyson of a serpent: they be lyke the deafe adder that stoppeth her eares,
Psalms 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;
Psalms 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,
Psalms 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like the deaf adder he stops his ear,
Psalms 58:4
Their anger is as deadly as the poison of a snake. They shut their ears like a deaf cobra
Psalms 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 of the bed undefiled with lusts and adulteries:

coupled with fear; with reverence of their husbands, giving them due honour, and showing all proper respect; or with the fear of God, which being before their eyes, and upon their hearts, engages them to such an agreeable conversation.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 includes that, but it also embraces much more. The conduct of the wife is to be in all respects pure; and this is to be the grand instrumentality in the conversion of her husband. A wife may be strictly chaste, and yet there may be many other things in her conduct and temper which would mar the beauty of her piety, and prevent any happy influence on the mind of her husband,

Coupled with fear - The word fear, in this place, may refer either to the fear of God, or to a proper respect and reverence for their husbands, Ephesians 5:33. The trait of character which is referred to is that of proper respect and reverence in all the relations which she sustained, as opposed to a trifling and frivolous mind. Leighton suggests that the word fear here relates particularly to the other duty enjoined - that of chaste conversation - “fearing the least stain of chastity, or the very appearance of anything not suiting with it. It is a delicate, timorous grace, afraid of the least air, or shadow of anything that hath but a resemblance of wronging it, in carriage, or speech, or apparel.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 5:33, for the reverence due to the husband.


 
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