They are the marks of carefully guarded relationships with people and with God. The second key phrase is in verse 2: “when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.” Purity and reverence ennoble a person they are signs of spiritual strength. In the same way that Jesus trusted God to work redemptively through his submission, we can trust God to work through our submission. The first is in verse 1: “in the same way.” It refers back to the Christlike submission described in the previous verses (2:21–24). The secret of a Christian wife’s submission is found in three phrases. He counseled the women to submit, but he was thinking of the kind of submission that is deeply catalytic, a potent secret remedy for a lost loved one. In 1 Peter 3, Peter was addressing a specific situation: how the wives of unsaved husbands might influence them to become Christians. We assume that such deference would sap a marriage of the mutual respect and service that a marriage ought to have to make it strong and vital. 1 Peter 3:1-2įor many people, the word submission implies serving someone else hand and foot.
Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.
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