end, give God unending glory. With that encouragement before us, our text emerges within its context. The force of 3:1, 2 shouldn’t be lost on us. Some men entering Heaven—giving glory to God on the day of Christ’s final visitation—will owe their very salvation to the honorable conduct and good deeds of a wife who determined to live out her days in real, costly, and faithful submission. Such earthly, worldly husbands were saved through the example of women who powerfully, mysteriously, and without
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