1 Peter 3 Submission to Husbands
God has inspired godly men through the scriptures to pen His Word
1 Peter 3:1 (KJV), “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.”
The non-believing husbands can only be ‘won’ if the wife conducts herself with ‘fear of the Lord’
1 Peter 3:2 (KJV), “While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.”
The original verse has it worded this way, “Having witnessed the in respect pure [53] conduct [391] of you”.
Strong’s Concordance (53) – hagnos: free from ceremonial defilement, holy, sacred. Thayer’s Greek Lexicon – b. pure from every fault, immaculate.
Strong’s Concordance (391) – anastrophé: behavior, conduct. Thayer’s Greek Lexicon – manner of life, behavior, conduct.
In chronological order
Genesis 3:16 (KJV), “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”
1 Corinthians 14:34 (KJV), “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.”
Colossians 3:18 (KJV), “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.”
Ephesians 5:22-24 (KJV), “22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.”
Ephesians 5:33 (KJV), “Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”
1 Timothy 2:12-13 (KJV), “12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.”
Titus 2:5 (KJV), “To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
And to the husbands
1 Peter 3:7 (KJV), “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”
For those to still hold to ‘an eye for an eye’
1 Peter 3:9 (KJV), “Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing [3059]: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.”
Strong’s Concordance (3059) – loidoria: abuse, railing. Thayer’s Greek Lexicon – railing, reviling.
The 1828 Webster’s Dictionary – RAIL, verb intransitive [Eng. to brawl.] To utter reproaches; to scoff; to use insolent and reproachful language; to reproach or censure in opprobrious terms; followed by at or against, formerly by on.
What the ‘born again’ are commissioned to do
1 Peter 3:10-12 (KJV), “10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.”
Do not hold back from telling anyone of your love for Jesus
1 Peter 3:15 (KJV), “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.”
What does the Lord say about being politically correct?
1 Peter 3:17 (KJV), “For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.”
Water baptism then and now
1 Peter 3:20-21 (KJV), “20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
Hebrews 5
Even the Son had a reverential fear of God (His Father)
Hebrews 5:7-9 (KJV), “7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; 9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.”
Jeremiah 9
False teaching can cause a consistent backsliding
Jeremiah 9:5-6 (KJV), “5 And they will deceive everyone his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. 6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.”
God’s wrath on both Jerusalem and Judah
Jeremiah 9:11 (KJV), “And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.”
You must have fear of the Lord to possess His wisdom
Jeremiah 9:23 (KJV), “Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches.”
For those who avoid the worldly wisdom the Lord will delight
Jeremiah 9:24 (KJV), “But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.”
Jesus is our circumcision (Jesus is our law) and ALL those uncircumcised perish
Colossians 2:11-14 (KJV), “11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.”
Jeremiah 9:25-26 (KJV), “25 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.”
Proverbs 31 The virtuous woman (read)
Ezekiel 8 Abominations in the Temple
Ezekiel was now in Babylon; but the messages of wrath he had delivered in the foregoing chapters related to Jerusalem
Ezekiel’s second vision – God’s jealousy
Ezekiel 8:3-4 (KJV), “3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. 4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.”
Exodus 20:3-5 (KJV), “3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.”
The sin of jealousy
Galatians 5:20 (KJV), “Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations [2205], wrath, strife, seditions, heresies.”
Strong’s Concordance (2205) – zelos: eagerness, zeal, rivalry. Thayer’s Greek Lexicon – 2. an envious and contentious rivalry, jealousy.
[1] “If a husband sees another man flirting with his wife, he is right to be jealous, for only he has the right to flirt with his wife. This type of jealousy is not sinful. Rather, it is entirely appropriate. Being jealous for something that God declares to belong to you is good and appropriate. Jealousy is a sin when it is a desire for something that does not belong to you. Worship, praise, honor, and adoration belong to God alone, for only He is truly worthy of it. Therefore, God is rightly jealous when worship, praise, honor, or adoration is given to idols.” (Gotquestions.com)
[1] Gotquestions.com
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