2. Wives and Husbands: Part II
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3. Christian Living in a Hostile World
Theme
Christian Living in a Hostile World

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

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

6. Piper
Submission is the divine calling of a wife to honor and affirm her husband’s leadership and help carry it through according to her gifts.

7. 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.

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

9. Wives and Husbands Silence is Golden – vv. 1-2
Ultimate Beauty – vv. 3-4

10. Mounce
Undue concern for external appearance reveals preoccupation with the superficial.

11. Stott
There is a difference between making yourself deliberately attractive and making yourself deliberately seductive. You women know the difference and so do we men.

12. 1 Timothy 2:9-10
…likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, 10 but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

13. Perry
The life I live as a woman will be my daughters’ first introduction to biblical womanhood far before my words are.

14. Henry
Religious people should take care that all their behaviour answers to their profession.

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

16. Genesis 18:12
So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?”

17. Proverbs 3:25
Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes.

18. Proverbs 31:25
Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

19. 1 Peter 2:20
For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.

20. Lenski
The sense is that these Christian women are to let nothing terrifying frighten them from their course. Pagan women may disdain and insult them because they have adopted a nobler wifehood, they yet remain unafraid. Pagan husbands may resent their Christianity; this, too, does not frighten them.

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

22. Ephesians 5:25-33
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28 In the same

23. Ephesians 5:25-33
way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body…each one of you love his wife as himself…