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NASB | 1 Peter 3:1 In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Peter 3:1 In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands [subordinate, not as inferior, but out of respect for the responsibilities entrusted to husbands and their accountability to God, and so partnering with them] so that even if some do not obey the word [of God], they may be won over [to Christ] without discussion by the godly lives of their wives, [Eph 5:22] |
Subject: So should your wife wear a headcovering? |
Bible Note: Tim You said, "I pretty much agree with everything you just posted with the exception of the silence issue. I have posted on it before, but I believe (from my research) that the word used does not refer to 'lack of speaking' but to a peacefulness of spirit that was willing to submit to the leadership of the church." Evidently you haven't read my posts on this subject. This was not an explicit command for women never to talk in church. Nor was this a command to quail some unique situation that pertained only to the Corinth church. I agree with your findings overall, however I think in this particular passage the women were breaking the peacefulness of the church by asking potentially embarrassing questions. Further more I interrupt this to say they were either doing this deliberately or in ignorance, but the effect was the same, the husband was shamed and peace was broken. In other words the women were going outside of scripture and trying to get even with their husbands by asking a question that would make him seem ignorant, overbearing or totally wrong. A question like, “Is it true to be saved, a women has to keep a perfect house?” This would have shown the man was using religion as whip against his wife and also as the priest of the home was teaching false precepts. In that culture, if you will permit me to use that, this would have brought the church into chaos until the matter was straightened out. Hence the scripture was given for, “peace let the wife submit to her husband and not speak out in effort to make him look bad and to settle the issue at home. EdB |