for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.

But the word of the Lord endures forever.”
And this is the word which was preached to you.

like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

and,
“A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”;
for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.

In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,