Rachel Workman: 3 In the same way, you wives must accept the authority
of your husbands. Then, even if some refuse to obey the Good News, your godly
lives will speak to them without any words. They will be won over 2 by
observing your pure and reverent lives. This
verse speaks the most to me today. It’s not by preaching, harassing or
demanding that we win an unsaved spouse but by living the life that God has
commanded us to live.
3 Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty of fancy hairstyles,
expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. 4 You should clothe
yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty
of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God. 5 This
is how the holy women of old made themselves beautiful. They trusted God and
accepted the authority of their husbands. 6 For instance, Sarah
obeyed her husband, Abraham, and called him her master. You are her daughters
when you do what is right without fear of what your husbands might do. I get what Peter is saying here. What is
beauty if your spirit is not beautiful? In today’s time true beauty has been
lost. My girls are growing up in a society that put more emphasis on beauty and
sexual gratification than any other thing. With my sons I see young girls
rushing to give themselves away so they can bond that boy to them. They are so insecure
about themselves due to what society has deemed beautiful that’s the only way
they think they can compete. It breaks my heart.
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John Burnett: 3 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, 2 as they observe your chaste and [a]respectful behavior. 3 Your
adornment must not be merely external—braiding the hair, and wearing
gold jewelry, or putting on dresses; 4 but let it be the
hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet
spirit, which is precious in the sight of God. 5 For in this
way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn
themselves, being submissive to their own husbands; 6 just as
Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you
do what is right [b]without being frightened by
any fear. After reading this passage, I immediately thought of my aunt
Ruth. She never married but she had such a gentle quiet spirit and there
is no doubt she was precious in the sight of God. The sacrifices she made
for our family are still being impactful today.
7 You
husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way,
as with [c]someone weaker, since she is
a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your
prayers will not be hindered. 21 years of marriage and I still do not
understand everything she does. One thing we have done is we have gotten
better at forgiving each other as we grow in Christ. You really don’t
understand the gospel if you hold something against your spouse. If we
hold something against our spouse to try and punish him or her, we are
demonstrating that what Christ did on the Cross to forgive sins was not
enough.
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Krista Cook: 3 In the same way, you wives must accept the authority
of your husbands. Then, even if some refuse to obey the Good News, your godly
lives will speak to them without any words. They will be won over 2 by
observing your pure and reverent lives.
- living by example is such a strong influence on those around
us
3 Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty of
fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. 4 You
should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the
unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God.
- one of my very favorite passages and one of the hardest to
live up to at times
5 This is how the holy women of old made
themselves beautiful. They trusted God and accepted the authority of their
husbands. 6 For instance, Sarah obeyed her husband, Abraham,
and called him her master. You are her daughters when you do what is right
without fear of what your husbands might do.
7 In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives.
Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than
you are, but she is your equal partner in God’s gift of new life. Treat her as
you should so your prayers will not be hindered.
- husbands must be careful in how they treat their wives b/c it
says their prayers can be hindered. But wives, we must also be the kind
of wife that it is easy to give honor to.
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Mike Grimm: 3 In the same
way, you wives must accept the authority of your husbands. Then, even if some
refuse to obey the Good News, your godly lives will speak to them without any
words. They will be won over 2 by observing your pure and
reverent lives. A Christian
wife must live a holy life (1 Peter 1:15). She should respect and obey her
husband, even if he still does not obey God. But sometimes her husband may tell
her to do something that is a sin. This is the only time that she must not obey
him. A husband will see that his wife behaves better because she is a
Christian. One day he will want to know God too, but it may take a long time.
She should pray for her husband. She herself should live a holy life and trust
God.
3 Don’t
be concerned about the outward beauty of fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry,
or beautiful clothes. 4 You should clothe yourselves instead
with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and
quiet spirit, which is so precious to God. A woman can make herself beautiful
on the outside. This is not wrong. However, a Christian woman should be
beautiful in her spirit too. A ‘gentle spirit’ means that she does not insist
that she is always right. She does not make other people do what she wants to
do. She does not argue or fight. A ‘quiet spirit’ means that she is peaceful in
her spirit. Then she helps other people to feel peaceful too. This is what is
important to God. 1 Samuel 16:7 says that people decide what other people are
like by what they look like on the outside. But God looks at their spirit.
Beautiful clothes will wear out. The good things in the spirit of a person will
never wear out.
5 This
is how the holy women of old made themselves beautiful. They trusted God and
accepted the authority of their husbands. 6 For instance, Sarah
obeyed her husband, Abraham, and called him her master. You are her daughters
when you do what is right without fear of what your husbands might do. What Peter wrote in verses 1-4 is
not new. It is true for all women in every country at all times. Abraham and
Sarah lived nearly 2000 years before Peter wrote this letter. You can read
about them in Genesis chapters 11-25. Sarah was a holy woman, because she
trusted God. She did what was right. ‘She called him master’ means that she
respected Abraham as her husband. ‘You Christian women are daughters of Sarah’.
This means that all women who trust God are part of the same spiritual family
of God. Women who obey God will not be afraid of anything.
7 In
the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with
understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is
your equal partner in God’s gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your
prayers will not be hindered. The way that a husband behaves is also very important.
Every husband should learn how to care for his wife. A man has a stronger body,
so that he can protect his wife. He must not think that it is bad that she is
weaker. God decided to make men and women different. But they will receive an
equal inheritance from God (Galatians 3:27-29). ‘Gift of new life’ refers to
their new spiritual life. A husband should honour and respect his wife, because
she is precious. If a husband behaves badly towards his wife, he does not obey
God. It is difficult for people to pray together when they have sin in their
lives.
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