Wives and Husbands

3:1 In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then,1 even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live,2 3:2 when they see your pure and reverent conduct.3 3:3 Let your4 beauty5 not be external—the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry6 or fine clothes—3:4 but the inner person7 of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight. 3:5 For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands, 3:6 like Sarah who obeyed8 Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children9 when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so.10 3:7 Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners11 and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.12