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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: How literal do we go? |
Bible Note: I'm sorry - I must not be communicating correctly - I didn't mean to say that the Greek word for submission here meant supression, rather that the unspoken truth there was that there MOST CERTAINLY was a supression of women - and from what I have read, it's not like America before women had the right to vote - it was - YOU ARE YOUR HUSBAND's PROPERTY - as is his slave, his child, and his camel. It was probably very similar to the Taliban's treatment of their women. We cringe at that when we see it today but forget about that major part of the picture when we read the verses. I am wondering why we don't see that Paul was trying to regulate women within this cruel system (very similar to slavery). He could regulate their actions by the directives given to submit, and therefore also stop the fall-out that would have occured if the men of the day saw that "this new Jesus religion" was one that caused their slaves to stop working or their wives to get the idea that they could buck the patriarchal gender roles of the day. |