1 Peter 3:7 BSB — MannaFest

1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

BSB

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ASV

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

KJV

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Likewise, ye husbands - On the general duty of husbands, see the notes at Eph 5:25 ff. Dwell with them - That is, “Let your manner of living with them be that which is immediately specified.” According to knowledge - In accordance with an intelligent view of the nature of the relation; or, as becomes those who have been instructed in the duties of this relation according to the gospel.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

That your prayers be not hindered - On the one part or the other. All sin hinders prayer; particularly anger. Anything at which we are angry is never more apt to come into our mind than when we are at prayer; and those who do not forgive will find no forgiveness from God.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

He does not take into account the case of an unbelieving wife, as she might yet believe. grace of life--God's gracious gift of life (1Pe 1:4, 13). that your prayers be not hindered--by dissensions, which prevent united prayer, on which depends the blessing.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Οἱ	Hoi	you who [are]	G3588 →
ἄνδρες	andres	Husbands	G435 →
ὁμοίως,	homoiōs	likewise,	G3668 →
συνοικοῦντες	sunoikountes	dwelling with [them]	G4924 →
κατὰ	kata	according to	G2596 →
γνῶσιν	gnōsin	knowledge	G1108 →
ὡς	hōs	as	G5613 →
ἀσθενεστέρῳ	asthenesterō	with a weaker	G772 →
σκεύει	skeuei	vessel	G4632 →
τῷ	tō	with the	G3588 →
γυναικείῳ	gunaikeiō	female	G1134 →
ἀπονέμοντες	aponemontes	rendering	G632 →
τιμὴν	timēn	honor	G5092 →
ὡς	hōs	since	G5613 →
καὶ	kai	[they are] also	G2532 →
συγκληρονόμοις	sugklēronomois	joint-heirs	G4789 →
χάριτος	charitos	of [the] grace	G5485 →
ζωῆς	zōēs	of life	G2222 →
εἰς	eis	so as	G1519 →
τὸ	to	this	G3588 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
ἐγκόπτεσθαι	egkoptesthai	[cause to] be impeded	G1465 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
προσευχὰς	proseuchas	prayers	G4335 →
ὑμῶν.¶	humōn	of you.	G4771 →

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 walk6

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 3:19
Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
leads to
- Genesis 2:23–24
  And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
- Colossians 3:21
  Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
- Ephesians 5:25
  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
- Ephesians 5:28–29
  In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- Ephesians 4:31
  Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
Through
1 Corinthians 7:3
The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.
leads to
- Exodus 21:10
  If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.