“ While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. ”
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 cal...
This counsel to wives and husbands is full of a fine courtesy, and true chivalry, and shows how the new leaven is at work in the thought of the Church. It is not only a contrast to paganism, but has...
While, &c . = Having beheld. App-133. chaste . Greek. hagnos. See 2 Corinthians 7:11 . coupled with . in. App-104. fear . Here used in the sense of reverence. Compare Ephesians 5:33...
2 While they behold For minds, however alienated from the true faith, are subdued, when they see the good conduct of believers; for as they understood not the doctrine of Christ, they form a...
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Chaste conversation - with fear - While they see that ye join modesty, chastity, and the purest manners, to the fear of God. Or perhaps...
While they behold your chaste conversation— Dr. Heylin's translation here, though not literal, seems well to express the sense of the sacred writer: While they behold your purity of manners, and t...
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Behold - on narrowly looking into it х epopteusantes ( G2029 )]. Chaste - free from all impurity. Fear - reverential,...
The Blessedness of Christ's People, Though They Should Suffer Like Christ B (iii). 1 Peter 3:1-6 . Another divinely created ordinance of man is marriage. One of the purposes of Christianity was...
While they behold... — The same curious word as in 1 Peter 2:12 , and the tense, which is ill-represented by “while they behold,” sets us at the moment of the triumph of the wife’s conduct, litera...
Chapter 9 CHRISTIAN WIVES AND HUSBANDS 1 Peter 3:1-7 THE Apostle gave at first 1 Peter 2:13 the rule of Christian submission generally; then proceeded to apply it to the cases of citizens an...
Christian Family-Life 1 Peter 3:1-12 In the previous chapter the Apostle had been urging the poor slaves of wealthy householders to submit quietly to wrongs, leaving God to vindicate. Here he t...
The marriage relation was then dealt with, and special emphasis was laid on the fact that the true adornment of woman is found in her character rather than in her dress. Husbands are charged to dwell...
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; (2) While they behold your chaste co...
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 preservin...
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Ver. 2. Whiles they behold ] Curiously pry into. Carnal men watch the carriages of prolessors, and spend many thoughts about them....
Likewise As I have exhorted servants to be in subjection to their masters, I in like manner say, Ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands In all things just and lawful; that if any (he s...
There is similar instruction for wives, for theirs is the subject place, certainly not as slaves to a master, but as joined to their "own husbands," a most-intimate and precious relationship. Because...
Duties of Husbands and Wives. A. D. 66. 1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own h...
Chaste conversation; free from all manner of impurities, and any thing contrary to the marriage covenant. Coupled with fear; such a fear or reverence of your husbands, whereby out of the fear of...
‘In the same way, you who are wives, be subject in obedience to your own husbands, so that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behaviour of their wives, beholdi...
THE CHRISTIAN SPIRIT IN SOCIAL RELATIONS CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES THE main contention of St. Peter is that the Christian life and obligations are not intended to be, and never should be, m...
1 Peter 3:1-2 . 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; while they behold y...
1 Peter 3:1 . Ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands. The same words occur in Ephesians 5:22 . Col 3:18. The excellence of piety is pleaded here, as the first ornament of a wife. Wisdom...
Expositions 1 Peter 3:1 Likewise, ye wives. St. Peter has spoken of the duties of servants: why does he omit those of masters? There must have been Christian masters in Asia Minor, as is...
Exhortations to the Married.
1 Peter 1:15 ; 1 Peter 2:12 ; 1 Peter 3:15 ; 1 Peter 3:16 ; 1 Peter 3:5 ; 1 Peter 3:6 ; 1 Timothy 4:12 ; 2 Peter 3:11 ; Colossians 3:22 ; Ephesians 5:33 ; Ephesians 6:5 ; Philippians 1:27...
Joined with a loving fear of displeasing them.