1 Peter 3:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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;

Ye

Titus 2:3

Obey

Hebrews 11:8

They

1 Corinthians 7:16

Colossians 4:5

Won

Matthew 18:15

1 Corinthians 9:19

James 5:19

General references

1 Timothy 2:11

Bible References

Ye

For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband while he is living; but, if her husband dies, she is set free from the law that bound her to him.

Wives should submit to their husbands as submitting to the Lord.

Wives, submit to your husbands, as befits those who belong to the Lord.

A woman should listen silently to her teachers, and show them all deference.

So, too, that the older women should be reverent in their demeanor, and that they should avoid scandal, and beware of becoming slaves to drink;

Obey

Now that, by your obedience to the Truth, you have purified your lives, so that there is growing up among you a genuine brotherly affection, love one another earnestly with all your hearts;

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the House of God; and, if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who reject God's Good News?

God be thanked that, though you were once servants of Sin, yet you learned to give hearty obedience to that form of doctrine under which you were placed.

Still, it may be said, every one did not give heed to the Good News. No, for Isaiah asks--'Lord, who has believed our teaching?'

Then he will 'inflict punishment upon those who refuse to know God, and upon those who turn a deaf ear' to the Good News of Jesus, our Lord.

and, being made perfect, he became to all those who obey him the source of eternal Salvation,

It was faith that enabled Abraham to obey the Call that he received, and to set out for the place which he was afterwards to obtain as his own; and he set out not knowing where he was going.

They

How can you tell, wife, whether you may not save your husband? and how can you tell, husband, whether you may not save your wife?

Show tact in your behavior to the outside world, making the most of every opportunity.

Won

If your Brother does wrong, go to him and convince him of his fault when you and he are alone. If he listens to you, you have won your Brother.

Although I was entirely free, yet, to win as many converts as possible, I made myself everyone's slave.

My Brothers, should one of you be led astray from the Truth, and some one bring him back again,

General references

A woman should listen silently to her teachers, and show them all deference.