1 Peter 3:7

American Standard Version (1901)

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

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  • Col 3:19 : 19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.
  • Eph 5:25-28 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, 27 that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
  • Mal 2:14-16 : 14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. 15 And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 16 For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
  • 1 Thess 4:4 : 4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
  • 1 Cor 7:3 : 3 Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
  • Gen 2:23-24 : 23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
  • Prov 5:15-19 : 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. 16 Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets? 17 Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. 19 [ As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.
  • Matt 19:3-9 : 3 And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful [for a man] to put away his wife for every cause? 4 And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made [them] from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh? 6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. 7 They say unto him, Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put [her] away? 8 He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so. 9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.
  • Eph 3:6 : 6 [ to wit], that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Pet 3:1-6
    6 verses
    79%

    1In like manner, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

    2beholding your chaste behavior [coupled] with fear.

    3Whose [adorning] let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;

    4but [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [apparel] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

    5For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

    6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

  • Col 3:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

    19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
    4 verses
    78%

    2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

    4The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

    5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

  • Eph 5:21-25
    5 verses
    77%

    21subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

    22Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

    23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body.

    24But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.

    25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

  • 1 Pet 3:8
    76%

    8Finally, [be] ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

  • Eph 5:33
    74%

    33Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
    73%

    16For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

  • Titus 2:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5[ to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

  • 1 Cor 11:3
    71%

    3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

  • Eph 5:28-29
    2 verses
    71%

    28Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

    29for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

  • 1 Tim 3:11
    71%

    11Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-14
    5 verses
    70%

    10But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

    11(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

    12But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

    13And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

    14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
    69%

    11Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 14:34-35
    2 verses
    68%

    34let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.

    35And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church.

  • 1 Cor 7:33-34
    2 verses
    68%

    33but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

    34and is divided. [So] also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

  • 1 Thess 4:4
    68%

    4that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

  • 1 Tim 5:14
    68%

    14I desire therefore that the younger [widows] marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

  • Rom 7:2
    68%

    2For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

  • 1 Tim 3:4-5
    2 verses
    67%

    4one that ruleth well his own house, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity;

    5(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

  • 1 Tim 2:9
    67%

    9In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;

  • 1 Pet 5:5
    67%

    5Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

  • 1 Cor 7:39
    67%

    39A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 11:13
    67%

    13Judge ye in yourselves: is it seemly that a woman pray unto God unveiled?

  • 1 Cor 11:7
    67%

    7For a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

  • 1 Cor 7:29
    66%

    29But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

  • 1 Tim 5:2
    66%

    2the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

  • Prov 31:23
    66%

    23Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land.

  • Num 30:14
    66%

    14But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he hath established them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.