1 Peter 3:1

5. Duties of wives, 1 Peter 3:1-6, and husbands, 1 Peter 3:7.

1. Likewise On the principle laid down in 1 Peter 2:18.

Ye wives The same precept is found in Ephesians 5:22; Ephesians 5:24, and Colossians 2:28, yet not with the reason here assigned. That the husband does not obey… the word of the gospel, constitutes no exception to the rule of subjection, but is rather a special ground of its obligation, in order that he may be won to Christ by the powerful argument of the wife’s holy and obedient conduct.

Without the word Not, as Alford, the wives’ word, in preaching to or exhorting them, but, as before in the verse, the word of the gospel, the preached word, which had not yet won them to faith in Christ.