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, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
• Eph 5:33Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
• Eph 5:22–24Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
• Titus 2:3–6and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
• 1 Cor 11:3But I would have you know 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 7:16For how 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 greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
• 1 Pet 3:7You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
• Rom 7:2For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
• Esth 1:16–20Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.
• 1 Cor 9:19–22For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
• Matt 18:15“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
• Jas 5:19–20Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
• 1 Cor 14:34Let the women be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,
• 1 Tim 2:11–12Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.
• Col 4:5Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
• 2 Th 1:8giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
• Rom 6:17But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
• Heb 11:8By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
• Prov 18:19A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a fortress.
• Prov 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• Rom 10:16But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
• 1 Pet 4:17For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?
• Heb 5:9Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

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