1 Peter 3:1 BSB — MannaFest

1 Peter 3:1

Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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 their wives;

KJV

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;

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Commentary

5 voices

Tertullian

To His Wife Book II (220)

If these things may happen to those women also who, having attained the faith while in (the state of) Gentile matrimony, continue in that state, still they are excused, as having been "apprehended by God" in these very circumstances; and they are bidden to persevere in their married state, and are sanctified, and have hope of "making a gain" held out to them.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands,.... As well as subjects to princes, and servants to masters; though not with the same sort of subjection, but what is suitable to the relation they stand in to their husbands; See Gill on Eph 5:22. See Gill on Col 3:18. that if any obey not the word; any husband who is an unbeliever, has no love for the Gospel, and gives no credit to it, but despises, disbelieves, and rejects it, the word of truth, of faith, of righteousness, reconciliation, and salvation.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The apostle having treated of the duties of subjects to their sovereigns, and of servants to their masters, proceeds to explain the duty of husbands and wives. Lest the Christian matrons should imagine that their conversion to Christ, and their interest in all Christian privileges, exempted them from subjection to their pagan or Jewish husbands, the apostle here tells them, 1.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands - On the duty here enjoined, see the 1Co 11:3-9 notes, and Eph 5:22 note. That, if any obey not the word - The word of God; the gospel. That is, if any wives have husbands who are not true Christians. This would be likely to occur when the gospel was first preached, as it does now, by the fact that wives might be converted, though their husbands were not. It cannot be inferred from this, that after they themselves had become Christians they had married unbelieving husbands.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ὁμοίως	Homoiōs	Likewise	G3668 →
αἱ	hai	You	G3739 →
γυναῖκες	gunaikes	wives	G1135 →
ὑποτασσόμεναι	hupotassomenai	be subject	G5293 →
τοῖς	tois	<the>	G3588 →
ἰδίοις	idiois	to [their] own	G2398 →
ἀνδράσιν,	andrasin	husbands,	G435 →
ἵνα	ina	so that	G2443 →
καὶ	kai	even	G2532 →
εἴ	ei	if	G1487 →
τινες	tines	any	G5100 →
ἀπειθοῦσιν	apeithousin	are disobedient	G544 →
τῷ	tō	to the	G3588 →
λόγῳ,	logō	word,	G3056 →
διὰ	dia	through	G1223 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
γυναικῶν	gunaikōn	wives	G1135 →
ἀναστροφῆς	anastrophēs	conduct	G391 →
ἄνευ	aneu	without	G427 →
λόγου	logou	word	G3056 →
κερδηθήσονται,	kerdēthēsontai	they will be gained,	G2770 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Colossians 3:18
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
leads to
- Ephesians 5:22
  Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Titus 2:4–5
  In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
- 1 Corinthians 11:3
  But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
Through
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
leads to
- Genesis 3:16
  To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Colossians 1:18
  And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
- 1 Corinthians 3:23
  and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
- Colossians 3:18
  Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Through
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
leads to
- 1 Peter 3:2–7
  when they see your pure and reverent demeanor.