1-Peter 3:7 Themes and Topics

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right; honour your father and mother (it is the first command with a promise), that it may be well with you and that you may live long on earth. read more.
As for you fathers, do not exasperate your children, but bring them up in the discipline and on the admonitions of the Lord. Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself; instead of merely working when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, do God's will from the heart like servants of Christ, by rendering service with goodwill as to the Lord and Master, not to men. Be sure that everyone, slave or free, will be paid back by the Lord and Master for the good he has done.

In the same way, you wives must be submissive to your husbands, so that even those who will not believe the Word may be won over without a word by the behaviour of their wives, when they see how chaste and reverent you are. You are not to adorn yourselves on the outside with braids of hair and ornaments of gold and changes of dress, read more.
but inside, in the heart, with the immortal beauty of a gentle and modest spirit, which in the sight of God is of rare value. It was in this way long ago that the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves. They were submissive to their husbands. Thus Sara obeyed Abraham by calling him 'lord'. And you are daughters of Sara if you do what is right and yield to no panic. In the same way you husbands must be considerate in living with your wives, since they are the weaker sex; you must honour them as heirs equally with yourselves of the grace of Life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her Verse Concepts

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hence a man shall leave his father and mother, Verse Concepts

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In the same way you husbands must be considerate in living with your wives, since they are the weaker sex; you must honour them as heirs equally with yourselves of the grace of Life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Verse Concepts

The promise made to Abraham and his offspring that he should inherit the world, did not reach him through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. Verse Concepts

Now if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring; in virtue of the Promise, you are heirs. Verse Concepts

and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ ??for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory. Verse Concepts

So you are servant no longer but son, and as son you are also heir, all owing to God. Verse Concepts

Are not all angels merely spirits in the divine service, commissioned for the benefit of those who are to inherit salvation? Verse Concepts

It was by faith that Noah, after being told by God what was still unseen, reverently constructed an ark to save his household; thus he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that follows faith. Verse Concepts

God, in his desire to afford the heirs of the Promise a special proof of the solid character of his purpose, interposed with an oath; Verse Concepts

In the same way you husbands must be considerate in living with your wives, since they are the weaker sex; you must honour them as heirs equally with yourselves of the grace of Life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Verse Concepts

that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal." Verse Concepts

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her Verse Concepts

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hence a man shall leave his father and mother, Verse Concepts

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In the same way you husbands must be considerate in living with your wives, since they are the weaker sex; you must honour them as heirs equally with yourselves of the grace of Life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Verse Concepts

Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another; Verse Concepts

Thus, Moses said, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. Verse Concepts

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honour your father and mother (it is the first command with a promise), that it may be well with you and that you may live long on earth.

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Do honour to all, love the brotherhood, reverence God, honour the emperor. Verse Concepts

In the same way you husbands must be considerate in living with your wives, since they are the weaker sex; you must honour them as heirs equally with yourselves of the grace of Life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Verse Concepts

honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself." Verse Concepts

In the same way you husbands must be considerate in living with your wives, since they are the weaker sex; you must honour them as heirs equally with yourselves of the grace of Life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Verse Concepts

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her Verse Concepts

In the same way you husbands must be considerate in living with your wives, since they are the weaker sex; you must honour them as heirs equally with yourselves of the grace of Life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Verse Concepts

Husbands, love your wives, do not be harsh to them. Verse Concepts

Now about the questions in your letter. It is an excellent thing for a man to have no intercourse with a woman; but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own. The husband must give the wife her conjugal dues, and the wife in the same way must give her husband his;