1 Peter 3:1

Wives are to submit to their own husbands so that unbelieving husbands may be won without words by their godly conduct. A wife's Christlike behavior can powerfully witness to an unsaved spouse.

Cross-references · 25

• Col 3:18Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
• Eph 5:33Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
• Eph 5:22–24Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
• Titus 2:3–6Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.
• 1 Cor 11:3But 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.
• 1 Cor 7:16How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
• Gen 3:16To 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.”
• 1 Pet 3:7Husbands, 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.
• Rom 7:2For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
• Esth 1:16–20And in the presence of the king and his princes, Memucan replied, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the princes and the peoples in all the provinces of King Xerxes.
• 1 Cor 9:19–22Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
• Matt 18:15If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.
• Jas 5:19–20My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,
• 1 Cor 14:34Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
• 1 Tim 2:11–12A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.
• Col 4:5Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.
• 2 Th 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
• Rom 6:17But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.
• Heb 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
• Prov 18:19An offended brother is harder to win than a fortified city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle.
• Prov 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
• 1 Pet 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
• Rom 10:16But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”
• 1 Pet 4:17For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
• Heb 5:9And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him

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