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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: Hello Joy, I can't disagree with the supression of women in the Gentile cultures. Why I don't see is how the Bible regulates it. Let me give an example: Ephes. 5:25-30 (ESV) Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, [26] that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, [27] so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. [28] In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. In this passage, husbands are to love their wives as Christ loved the church. What His ultimate aim? To sanctify His bride and present to Himself one who was spotless. The passage goes on to say that husbands are to love their wives with the same purpose in mind--that his wife might be more holy and sinless. How can this be regulating suppression? Steve |