1 Peter 3:1

World English Bible (2000)

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

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  • Col 3:18 : 18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 7:16 : 16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
  • 1 Cor 11:3 : 3 But 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.
  • Gen 3:16 : 16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
  • 1 Cor 14:34 : 34 let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.
  • Eph 5:22-24 : 22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. 24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
  • 1 Cor 9:19-22 : 19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; 21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law. 22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
  • 1 Tim 2:11-12 : 11 Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. 12 But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.
  • Titus 2:3-6 : 3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; 4 that 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 God's word may not be blasphemed. 6 Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
  • Jas 5:19-20 : 19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, 20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
  • Matt 18:15 : 15 "If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
  • Rom 6:17 : 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.
  • Rom 7:2 : 2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
  • Rom 10:16 : 16 But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"
  • Esth 1:16-20 : 16 Memucan answered before the king and the princes, "Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus. 17 For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn't come.' 18 Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's deed will tell all the king's princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath. 19 "If it please the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she. 20 When the king's decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small."
  • Prov 11:30 : 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
  • Prov 18:19 : 19 A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a castle.
  • Col 4:5 : 5 Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
  • 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
  • 1 Pet 4:17 : 17 For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God?
  • Heb 5:9 : 9 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
  • Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

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  • Col 3:18-20
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    18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

    19 Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.

    20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

  • 1 Pet 3:2-8
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    2 seeing your pure behavior in fear.

    3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

    4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

    5 For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

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

    7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

    8 Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

  • Eph 5:21-25
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    21 subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

    22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

    23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

    24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

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

  • Titus 2:3-5
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    3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

    4 that 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 God's word may not be blasphemed.

  • 1 Tim 3:11-12
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    11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

    12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

  • 1 Cor 14:34-35
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    34 let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.

    35 If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.

  • 1 Cor 7:3-4
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    3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

    4 The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

  • 1 Tim 2:9-12
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    9 In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;

    10 but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.

    11 Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

    12 But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

  • Eph 5:33
    74%

    33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

  • 1 Tim 3:4-5
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    4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

    5 (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

  • Titus 2:9
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    9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3 But 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.

  • 1 Tim 5:14
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    14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

  • Col 3:22
    70%

    22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

  • Eph 5:28
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    28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

  • Titus 3:1
    70%

    1 Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

  • Eph 6:5
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    5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

  • 1 Cor 11:11
    69%

    11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 7:11-14
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    11 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

    12 But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

    13 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

    14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

  • 1 Pet 2:18
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    18 Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

  • 1 Tim 2:15
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    15 but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

  • 1 Pet 1:14-15
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    14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

    15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

  • 1 Tim 3:2
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    2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

  • Esth 1:17
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    17 For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn't come.'