Living Hope: Part 6 Building a Thriving Marriage

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1 Peter 3:1-7

8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 

1 Peter 4:8.

• Follow the .

1 Wives, in the same way submit… 7 Husbands, in the same way be considerate…

1 Peter 3:1a;7a

2)  Appreciate the .

Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands… 1 Peter 2:1a

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church,… 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.  Ephesians 5:22-23;25

“Headship is not a dictatorship; but the loving exercise of divine authority under the lordship of Jesus Christ.”  Warren Wiersbe

(1)  Submission is not an option; it’s an . 

Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands… 1 Peter 3:1a

(2)  Submission is not a difficulty; it’s an .

… so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, 2 when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.  1 Peter 3:1-2

(3)  Submission is not an external adornment; it’s an internal .

3 Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. 4 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. 5 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, 6 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.  1 Peter 3:3-6

3)  Practice the .

7 Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.  1 Peter 3:7

• – 7 … as you live with your wives. 1 Peter 3:7a.

• and – 7 … treat them with respect. 1 Peter 3:7b. 

• – 7… so that nothing will hinder your prayers.  1 Peter 3:7d.

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