1 Peter 3:1-6
Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear. (NIV)
1) A wife’s purposeful submission to her husband
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Genesis 1:26-27
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Philippians 2:6-8
Jesus, who being in nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death - even death on a cross!
John 5:30
By myself, I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgments is just, for I seek not to please myself but Him who sent me.
1 Corinthians 11:3
Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.” (ESV)
2) True beauty is found
1 Samuel 16:7
The LORD does not look at the things man look at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. (NIV)
3) A wife’s submission is
Genesis 12:11-13
I know what a beautiful woman you are. When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live. Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.
Genesis 20:11-13
Abraham replied, “I said to myself, ‘There is surely no fear of God in this place; and they will kill me because of my wife. Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother and she became my wife. And when God had me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, “This is how you can show your love to me. Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”“
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