Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that,
if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without
words by the behavior of their wives.
Oh how grievous to me to hear so many women object to this scripture... Here is why they should not object. Firstly, we cannot in our fallen condition, though yet having the Holy Spirit, fully understand God's ways and His Will for our lives. How does the Holy Spirit help us when we read such scripture? It helps us to accept the Word of God as right for us because His ways are not our ways.
You see, the wife must discharge her duty to her own husband, though he obey not
the word. We daily see how narrowly evil men watch the ways and lives of
professors of religion. Putting on of apparel is not forbidden, but
vanity and costliness in ornament.
Religious people should take care
that all their behavior but few know
the right measure and bounds of those two necessaries of life, food and
raiment! Unless poverty is our carver, and cuts us short, there is
scarcely any one who does not desire something beyond what is good for
us.
Far more are beholden to the lowliness of their state, than the
lowliness of their mind; and many will not be so bounded, but lavish
their time and money upon trifles.
The apostle directs Christian females
to put on something not corruptible, that beautifies the soul, even the
graces of God's Holy Spirit. A true Christian's chief care lies in
right ordering his own spirit. This will do more to fix the affections,
and excite the esteem of a husband, than studied ornaments or
fashionable apparel, attended by a froward and quarrelsome temper.
Wives should be subject to their
husbands, not from dread and amazement, but from desire to do well, and
please God. And when, reading 1 Peter 3 further, we learn that we as
women should not be concerned about outward beauty of fancy hairstyles,
expensive jewelry or beautiful clothes. We must instead clothe ourselves
with the beauty that comes from within.... gentle and quiet.
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