Text -- 1 Peter 3:1-6 (NET)

Wives and Husbands

3:1 In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live, 3:2 when they see your pure and reverent conduct. 3:3 Let your beauty not be external– the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes– 3:4 but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight. 3:5 For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands, 3:6 like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Pe 3:1

¹ tn Grk “that…they may be won over,” showing the purpose of “being subject” (vs. 1b). Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

² tn Grk “by the wives’ behavior.”

NET Notes: 1Pe 3:2

¹ tn Grk “behavior,” the same word translated “the way you live” in vs. 1.

NET Notes: 1Pe 3:3

¹ tn Grk “whose,” referring to the wives.

² tn Or “adornment.”

³ tn The word “jewelry” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate that gold ornaments or jewelry is intended; otherwise the reader might assume wearing gold-colored clothing was forbidden.

NET Notes: 1Pe 3:4

¹ tn Grk “the hidden man.” KJV’s “the hidden man of the heart,” referring to a wife, could be seriously misunderstood by the modern English reader.

NET Notes: 1Pe 3:6

¹ tn Grk “as Sarah obeyed.”

² tn Grk “whose children you become.”

³ tn Grk “doing good and not fearing any intimidation.”