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As a young church in a hostile environment, Peter's first readers found in his letter encouragement, not just for facing suffering, but for living responsibly in the world as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. Christians today will also find in Peter's letter a wealth of practical counsel on how to conduct themselves in family and social life, as well as in relation to a society that makes it...

Wives and Husbands (3:1–7)* In the second main part of the Household Code, Peter turns to the Christian duties of wives. Their problems receive much fuller attention than those of husbands, probably because Christian women were more likely to have non-Christian partners than Christian men and so were more liable to hostility. In fact Peter appears to assume that the men will have believing wives, and what he says here is intended to apply to all Christian wives and not just to those with unbelieving
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