1-Peter 3:7 Themes and Topics

Children, obey your parents, for this is right. "You must honor your father and mother" -- this is the first commandment, with a promise to make it good "so that you may prosper and live a long life on earth." read more.
You parents, too, must stop exasperating your children, but continue to bring them up with the sort of education and counsel the Lord approves. You slaves must practice obedience to your earthly masters, with reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would obey Christ, not serving them as though they were watching you, but as true slaves of Christ, trying to carry out the will of God. Heartily and cheerfully keep on working as slaves, as though it were for the Lord and not for men, for you know that everyone, slave or free, will get his reward from the Lord for anything good he has done.

You married women, in the same way, must be submissive to your husbands, so that, if any of them do not believe the message, they may be won over without a word through the living of the wives, when they see how chaste and respectful you are. Your adornments must be not of an external nature, with braids of hair or ornaments of gold, or changes of dress, read more.
but they must be of an internal nature, the character concealed in the heart, in the imperishable quality of a quiet and gentle spirit, which is of great value in the sight of God. For this is the way the pious women of olden times, who set their hope on God, used to adorn themselves. They were submissive to their husbands, as Sarah, for example, obeyed Abraham and called him master. You have become true daughters of hers, if you practice doing right and cease from every fear. You married men, in the same way, must live with your wives in an intelligent consideration of them; you must show them deference, too, as the weaker sex, as they share with you the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

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You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her, Verse Concepts

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Therefore, a man must leave his father and mother, Verse Concepts

But if she does leave him, she must remain single, or better, be reconciled to her husband. I instruct the husband too not to divorce his wife. Verse Concepts

You married men, in the same way, must live with your wives in an intelligent consideration of them; you must show them deference, too, as the weaker sex, as they share with you the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Verse Concepts

For the promise made to Abraham and his descendants, that he should own the world, was not conditioned on the law, but on the right standing he had with God through faith. Verse Concepts

And if you belong to Christ, then you are real descendants of Abraham, and heirs in accordance with the promise made to him. Verse Concepts

and if children, then also heirs, heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ if in reality we share His sufferings, so that we may share His glory too. Verse Concepts

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir by God's own act. Verse Concepts

Are not the angels all attending spirits sent forth to serve for the sake of those who are going to be unceasing possessors of salvation? Verse Concepts

By faith Noah, on being divinely warned about things not seen as yet, in reverence prepared an ark for saving his family, and by his faith condemned the world and became possessor of the uprightness that results from faith. Verse Concepts

Therefore, because God wanted to make the strongest demonstration of the unchangeable character of His purpose, He interposed with an oath, Verse Concepts

You married men, in the same way, must live with your wives in an intelligent consideration of them; you must show them deference, too, as the weaker sex, as they share with you the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Verse Concepts

so that we might come into right standing with God through His unmerited favor and become heirs of eternal life in accordance with our hope. Verse Concepts

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You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her, Verse Concepts

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Therefore, a man must leave his father and mother, Verse Concepts

But if she does leave him, she must remain single, or better, be reconciled to her husband. I instruct the husband too not to divorce his wife. Verse Concepts

You married men, in the same way, must live with your wives in an intelligent consideration of them; you must show them deference, too, as the weaker sex, as they share with you the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Verse Concepts

In brotherly love be affectionate to one another, in personal honors put one another to the fore, Verse Concepts

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and again, 'Whoever curses his father or mother must certainly be put to death,' Verse Concepts

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"You must honor your father and mother" -- this is the first commandment, with a promise to make it good "so that you may prosper and live a long life on earth."

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Show honor to everyone. Practice love for the brotherhood; practice reverence to God and honor to the Emperor. Verse Concepts

You married men, in the same way, must live with your wives in an intelligent consideration of them; you must show them deference, too, as the weaker sex, as they share with you the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Verse Concepts

You must practice honoring your father and mother. And you must love your neighbor as you do yourself." Verse Concepts

You married men, in the same way, must live with your wives in an intelligent consideration of them; you must show them deference, too, as the weaker sex, as they share with you the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Verse Concepts

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You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her, Verse Concepts

You married men, in the same way, must live with your wives in an intelligent consideration of them; you must show them deference, too, as the weaker sex, as they share with you the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Verse Concepts

You husbands must continue to love your wives and stop being harsh with them. Verse Concepts

Now I take up the matters about which you wrote me. It may be good thing for a man to remain unmarried; but because of so much sexual immorality every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own. The husband must always give his wife what is due her, and the wife too must do so for her husband.