Ephesians 5:22 commands wives to submit to their husbands as to the Lord — even an unbelieving one. Does your discernment exempt you from this command? What 1 Peter 3:1 says.
Ephesians 5:22 commands wives to submit to their own husbands, as to the Lord. 1 Peter 3:1 applies it even to the wife of a husband who does not obey the word — so that he may be won without a word.
Ephesians 5:22 KJV“Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?”
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1 Peter 3:1 KJV“This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:”
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