3:1 In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, 5 even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live, 6
1 tn Grk “keeping your conduct good.”
2 tn Grk “the Gentiles,” used here of those who are not God’s people.
3 tn Grk “in order that in what they malign you.”
4 tn Or “when he visits.” Grk “in the day of visitation,” denoting a time when God intervenes directly in human affairs, either for blessing (Luke 1:68, 78; 7:16; 19:44) or for judgment (Isa 10:3; Jer 6:15). This phrase may be a quotation from Isa 10:3, in which case judgment is in view here. But blessing seems to be the point, since part of the motive for good behavior is winning the non-Christian over to the faith (as in 3:1; also apparently in 3:15; cf. Matt 5:16).
5 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.
6 tn Grk “by the wives’ behavior.”