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Wives and Husbands

1 In the same way, wives,  * 3:1 Eph 5:22–33; Col 3:18–19; 1Tm 3:11 submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the word,  * 3:1 1Co 7:16; 1Pt 1:24–25 they may be won over  * 3:1 1Co 9:19–22; Php 3:8 without a word by the way their wives live  * 3:1 2Pt 3:112 when they observe your pure, reverent lives.  * 3:2 Ti 2:53 Don’t let your beauty consist of outward things like elaborate hairstyles and wearing gold jewelry or fine clothes,  * 3:3 Is 3:18–24; 1Tm 2:94 but rather what is inside the heart  * 3:4 Or rather, the hidden person of the heart,* 3:4 Rm 2:29; 7:22  — the imperishable quality of a gentle  * 3:4 Mt 5:5 and quiet  * 3:4 1Tm 2:2 spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 5 For in the past, the holy  * 3:5 Ps 20:6; 1Co 7:14 women who put their hope  * 3:5 1Tm 5:5; 1Pt 1:3 in God also adorned themselves in this way, submitting to their own husbands, 6 just as Sarah  * 3:6 Gn 17:15–21; 18:6–15; Heb 11:11 obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You have become her children when you do what is good and do not fear any intimidation.  * 3:6 Pr 3:25