1 Peter 3:6 BSB — MannaFest

1 Peter 3:6

just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. And you are her children if you do what is right and refuse to give way to fear.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

KJV

Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

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Commentary

6 voices

Ignatius of Antioch

Epistle of Pseudo-Ignatius to the Antiochians (108)

Let the husbands love their wives, remembering that, at the creation, one woman, and not many, was given to one man. Let the wives honour their husbands, as their own flesh; and let them not presume to address them by their names. Let them also be chaste, reckoning their husbands as their only partners, to whom indeed they have been united according to the will of God. Ye parents, impart a holy training to your children. Ye children, "honour your parents, that it may be well with you."

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on 1 Peter (1107)

Here he calls obedience an adornment, saying: they adorned themselves by being obedient to their own husbands. Having spoken indefinitely of "holy women," he calls them daughters of Sarah either by faith or by descent. For daughters must necessarily imitate their mothers. Along with the …

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham,.... Going along with him wherever he went, as from Chaldea to Canaan, and into Egypt, and the land of the Philistines, saying the words he put into her mouth, Gen 12:5 and doing the things he bid her do, Gen 18:6 "calling him lord"; or "my lord", as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions render it, and as it appears she did from Gen 18:

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Whose children ye are - In a spiritual as well as natural sense, and entitled to the same inheritance, while ye discharge your conjugal duties, not out of fear, but for conscience' sake.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Even as Sara obeyed - Almost the same words are in Rab. Tanchum, fol. 9, 3: “The wife of Abraham reverenced him, and called him lord, as it is written, Gen 18:12: And my lord is old.” The words of the apostle imply that she acknowledged his superiority, and her own subjection to him, in the order of God. Whose daughters ye are - As Abraham is represented the father of all his male believing descendants, so Sara is represented as the mother of all her believing female posterity.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὡς	hōs	as	G5613 →
Σάρρα	Sarra	Sarah	G4564 →
ὑπήκουσεν	hupēkousen	obeyed	G5219 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
Ἀβραὰμ	Abraam	Abraham	G11 →
κύριον	kurion	lord	G2962 →
αὐτὸν	auton	him	G846 →
καλοῦσα,	kalousa	calling,	G2564 →
ἧς	hēs	of whom	G3739 →
ἐγενήθητε	egenēthēte	you have become	G1096 →
τέκνα	tekna	children	G5043 →
ἀγαθοποιοῦσαι	agathopoiousai	doing good	G15 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
φοβούμεναι	phoboumenai	fearing	G5399 →
μηδεμίαν	mēdemian	not one	G3367 →
πτόησιν.¶	ptoēsin	consternation.	G4423 →

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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
Acts 4:19
But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God.
leads to
- Acts 5:29
  But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
- Exodus 1:17
  The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live.
- 1 Corinthians 10:15
  I speak to reasonable people; judge for yourselves what I say.
- 1 Timothy 2:3
  This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,
Through
Genesis 18:12
So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
leads to
- Genesis 17:17
  Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
- Luke 1:18–20
  “How can I be sure of this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”
Through
Isaiah 57:11
Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear…
leads to
- Isaiah 51:12–13
  “I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
- Psalms 50:21
  You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.