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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: It would be giving some directions to the husbands to treat their wives as humans, other Christians, not as property. It would remind the husbands that they should see their wives in a new light - that they should see them as God sees them, not as their culture would see them. It also sounds a little like it is trying to convince the men that they shouldn't feel embarassed in loving his wife in this way - because - loving your wife is like loving yourself - you are not going soft - it's a good thing. I think that the regulation of supression goes along with both these verses as well as the verses which speak of submission. The ultimate aim does make sense - the aim of the love is the sanctification of his wife - but the supression is answered not by the aim of the love, but by the love in general, itself. I am thinking as I write here, but that is my initial reaction. |