1 Peter 3:1-22 ASV

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 3:13-15

3:13-15a Who will hurt you, if you are ardent lovers of goodness? Even if you do have to suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. Have no fear of them; do not be troubled; but in your hearts give Christ a unique place. In this passage we can see how Peter was soaked in the Old Testament; there are two Old Testament foundations for it. It is not so much that he actually quotes them, as that he could not have written the passage at all unless the Old Testament had been in his... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 3:15

3:15b-16 Always be prepared to make your defence to anyone who calls you to account concerning the hope that is in you; but do so with gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are abused, those who revile your good behaviour in Christ may be put to shame. In a hostile and suspicious world it was inevitable that the Christian would be called upon to defend the faith he held and the hope by which he lived. Here Peter has certain things to say about this... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 3:17-22

3:17-22;4:1-6 For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be the will of God, than to suffer for doing wrong. For Christ also died once and for all for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but he was raised to life in the Spirit, in which also he went and preached to the spirits who are in prison, the spirits who were once upon a time disobedient, in the time when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, while... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 3:1

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands ,.... As well as subjects to princes, and servants to masters; though not with the same sort of subjection, but what is suitable to the relation they stand in to their husbands; See Gill on Ephesians 5:22 . See Gill on Colossians 3:18 . that if any obey not the word ; any husband who is an unbeliever, has no love for the Gospel, and gives no credit to it, but despises, disbelieves, and rejects it, the word of truth, of faith,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 3:2

While they behold your chaste conversation ,.... Cheerful subjection, strong affection, and inviolable attachment to them, and strict regard to the honour of the marriage state, and to the preserving of the bed undefiled with lusts and adulteries: coupled with fear ; with reverence of their husbands, giving them due honour, and showing all proper respect; or with the fear of God, which being before their eyes, and upon their hearts, engages them to such an agreeable conversation. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 3:3

Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning ,.... Or that only and principally; let not that be solely or chiefly attended to, nor anxiously sought after, nor ever in order to allure and ensnare others, or to fill with pride and vanity; nor should it be indecent and luxurious, immodest and immoderate, and unsuitable to the age, character, and station of persons; otherwise clothing is both convenient and necessary; and a decent garb, neat and modest apparel, and what is suitable to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 3:4

But let it be the hidden man of the heart ,.... By which is meant internal grace; which gives a beauty and ornament to the soul, far preferable to that which plaiting of the hair, wearing of gold, or any costly apparel, can give to the body: and this is called a man, as it is elsewhere the new man, Ephesians 4:24 because it has that which answers to what is in man, to his soul, and the powers and faculties of it: this man, or new creature, has a new heart and Spirit; it has a will to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 3:5

For after this manner in the old time ,.... In ages past, the years of many generations, since the time that God created man upon earth; in the times before the flood, and after it; in the times of the patriarchs, judges, kings, and prophets of Israel, under the Old Testament dispensation. The apostle exhorts and encourages to this inward dress and ornament, from the antiquity of it: for in this way, and after this fashion, the holy women also : who were sanctified by the Spirit of God,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 3:6

Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham ,.... Going along with him wherever he went, as from Chaldea to Canaan, and into Egypt, and the land of the Philistines, saying the words he put into her mouth, Genesis 12:5 and doing the things he bid her do, Genesis 18:6 "calling him lord"; or "my lord", as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions render it, and as it appears she did from Genesis 18:12 . The Jews use this instance to the same purpose the apostle does, saying F16 Sepher Musar apud Drus. de... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 3:7

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them ,.... "With your wives", as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions read; which not only included dwelling together in the same house, and bedding together in the same bed, but the whole of conjugal conversation, and all the offices and duties incumbent on men in a married state: according to knowledge ; of themselves, and their wives, and the duties belonging to the conjugal state, and the laws of God and man respecting it; and according to their... read more

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 3:13-15

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 3:15

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 3:17-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 3:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 3:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 3:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 3:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 3:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 3:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 3:7

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