The Bible Study Podcast, episode 808.

Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of First Peter with chapter three.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast.

I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

We're getting into chapter

three here, and it's going to start with wives and husbands. Wives in the same way submit yourself

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 when they see the purity and reverence of your

lives. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the

wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading

beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit,

which is of great worth in God's sight.

For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves.

They submitted themselves to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord.

You are her daughters, if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.

Husbands in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives and treat them with

respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life so that nothing will hinder your prayers.

I never look forward to these particular verses that talk about wives submitting yourselves to husbands and husbands to wives.

Because we tend to look into this with our cultural bias and say, well, how chauvinistic this is.

Peter approaches it a little differently than Paul does.

Paul's writings are a little harder, I think, for us to take.

Peter is looking at this, first of all, as a married man versus Paul who's a bachelor,

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