The Power of a Submissive Wife

1 Peter 3:1–6 NKJV

Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear. Do not let your adornment be merely outward—arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel—rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror.

Submission

1 Peter 3:1 NKJV

Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives,

Wives likewise refers back to 1 Peter 2:18-25.

Submissive is translated “subjection” which is a military term that means “to place under rank”.

God has made man the head of the home even though it is frowned upon today even by people in the church. Ephesians 5:21

Headship is not dictatorship but love under divine authority.

Christians must submit to Employers.

Christians must submit to the government.

Christian women must submit to their husbands, especially if they are an unbeliever.

1 Corinthians 7:14 NKJV

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

This is not a lesson marriage but a lesson on a mixed marriage of a believing wife married to an unbelieving husband.

Her goal is to win him to Christ.

Responsibility

1 Peter 3:2 NKJV

when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear.

Chaste means faultless or innocent.

Modesty

1 Peter 3:3–6 NKJV

Do not let your adornment be merely outward—arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel—rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror.

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