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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: That's the way I see it, the same as you, that the head covering passage falls into a 'cultural issues' category, whereas the submission passages do not. But even the 'head covering' passage pertains to, but is ancillary to, the primary teaching, which is that wives ought to submit to their husbands. ..... And I 'amen' your caution that the cultural argument should be used sparingly...very sparingly. As an illustration of the folly of over extending the cultural argument to the point of absurdity, some years ago while a member of a denomination that has turned exceedingly liberal in recent years, I attended a meeting at which the topic under consideration was the admission of practicing homosexuals into the clergy. The man who conducted the meeting was an ordained minister and a seminary professor. I am still numb when I reflect that this man addressed the group for a solid hour during which he attempted to show that the Bible does not really condemn homosexuality today. He played his 'cultural argument' card to the hilt, saying that the reason homosexuality was not looked upon with favor in Bible times was that it made God's people look too much like the pagan nations! I don't think anyone in the audience was particularly impressed with the arguments of this guy who had more degrees after his name than a thermometer. In fact, shortly after listening to this gas bag, about 40 long-time members of the congregation, my wife and I among them, walked out never to return. --Hank |