Wives and Husbands: Part I 3:1-7

Christian Living in a Hostile World Theme Christian Living in a Hostile World

Wives and Husbands Silence is Golden – vv. 1-2 Ultimate Beauty – vv. 3-4 Super Models – vv. 5-6 Godly Leadership – v. 7

Wives and Husbands Silence is Golden – vv. 1-2

Cato If you were to catch your wife in an act of infidelity, you can kill her with impunity without a trial.

Plutarch So it is with women also; if they subordinate themselves to their husbands, they are commended, but if they want to have control, they cut a sorrier figure than the subjects of their control. And control ought to be exercised by the men over the women, not as the owner has control over a piece of

Plutarch property, but, as the soul controls the body, by entering into her feelings and being knit to her through goodwill.

Ephesians 5:22-24 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

Ephesians 5:21 …submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

1 Corinthians 7:3-4 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

1 Peter 3:1-2 Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.

Plutarch A wife should not acquire her own friends, but should make her husband's friends her own. The gods are the first and most significant friends. For this reason, it is proper for a wife to recognize only those gods whom her husband worships.

1 Peter 2:7-8 So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” 8 and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

Begg The missionary impact is not going to come through the ears but through the eyes.

Augustine She served her husband as her master, and did all she could to win him for You, speaking to him of You by her conduct, by which You made her beautiful. . . . Finally, when her husband was at the end of his earthly span, she gained him for You. Confessions 

Ephesians 5:33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Titus 2:5 …to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.