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Teaching for the Husband
1 Peter 3:1-7 closes the household code with teaching addressed to wives and husbands. Wives are to be submissive to husbands, and the two possible scenarios of mixed and Christian marriages are envisaged. A Christian wife whose husband was an unbeliever might experience harsh treatment for insubordination because of her foreign religion.1 Exemplary behavior might also be linked to her faith and so win over the unbelieving mate to Christ. Outer adornment is the specific aspect of respectable conduct given to illustrate the teaching.2 Spiritual inner adornment is commended (a gentle and quiet spirit), and Sarah's demeanor provides a pattern. Christian husbands are to refuse to treat their wives harshly.3 They are fellow heirs of eternal life; failure to treat them with the respect they are due as human beings and fellow heirs will affect their relationship with God.4
One of the marks of belonging to a New Testament household was the adherence to certain kinds of behavior e.g. paying of taxes, love and respect between husbands and wives. What kind of household order do you follow?
11 Peter 3:1-2 21 Timothy 2:9-10 31 Peter 3:7 4cf.1 Timothy 2:8
"Teaching for the Husband."
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