1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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I Peter 3:1

In *like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that if any believe not the word, they may be gained without the word, by the conversation of the wives,

Ephesians 5:22.; Colossians 3:18

Let wives, etc. In the first six verses he gives instructions to married women. 1. By their modest and submissive dispositions to endeavour to gain and convert their husbands, shewing them such a respect as Sara did, (whose daughters they ought to esteem themselves) who called Abraham her lord, or master; (Genesis 18:12.) 2. To be modest in their dress, without vanity; 3. That women take the greatest care of the hidden man, that is of the interior disposition of their heart, which he calls the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit; 4. Not fearing any trouble, when God's service or the duty to their husbands require it. (Witham)