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 yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
• Eph 5:33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
• Eph 5:22–24Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
• Titus 2:3–6The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
• 1 Cor 11:3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
• 1 Cor 7:16For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
• Gen 3:16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
• 1 Pet 3:7Likewise, 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.
• Rom 7:2For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
• Esth 1:16–20And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
• 1 Cor 9:19–22For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
• Matt 18:15Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
• Jas 5:19–20Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
• 1 Cor 14:34Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
• 1 Tim 2:11–12Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
• Col 4:5Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
• 2 Th 1:8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
• Rom 6:17But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
• Heb 11:8By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
• Prov 18:19A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
• Prov 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
• Rom 10:16But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
• 1 Pet 4:17For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
• Heb 5:9And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

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