1 Peter 3:1
If any — He speaks tenderly. Won — Gained over to Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
If any — He speaks tenderly. Won — Gained over to Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
Joined with a loving fear of displeasing them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Three things are here expressly forbidden: curling the hair, wearing gold, (by way of ornament,) and putting on costly or gay apparel. These, therefore, ought never to be allowed, much less defended, by Christians.... [ Continue Reading ]
The hidden man of the heart — Complete inward holiness, which implies a meek and quiet spirit. A meek spirit gives no trouble willingly to any: a quiet spirit bears all wrongs without being troubled. In the sight of God — Who looks at the heart. All superfluity of dress contributes more to pride and... [ Continue Reading ]
The adorning of those holy women, who trusted in God, and therefore did not act thus from servile fear, was, Their meek subjection to their husbands: Their quiet spirit, "not afraid," or amazed: and Their unblamable behaviour, "doing" all things "well.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whose children ye are — In a spiritual as well as natural sense, and entitled to the same inheritance, while ye discharge your conjugal duties, not out of fear, but for conscience' sake. Genesis 18:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
Dwell with the woman according to knowledge — Knowing they are weak, and therefore to be used with all tenderness. Yet do not despise them for this, but give them honour — Both in heart, in word, and in action; as those who are called to be joint — heirs of that eternal life which ye and they hope t... [ Continue Reading ]
Finally — This part of the epistle reaches to 1 Peter 4:11. The apostle seems to have added the rest afterwards. Sympathizing — Rejoicing and sorrowing together. Love all believers as brethren. Be pitiful — Toward the afflicted. Be courteous — To all men. Courtesy is such a behaviour toward equals a... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye are called to inherit a blessing — Therefore their railing cannot hurt you; and, by blessing them, you imitate God, who blesses you.... [ Continue Reading ]
For he that desireth to love life, and to see good days — That would make life amiable and desirable. Psalms 34:12, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
Let him seek — To live peaceably with all men. And pursue it — Even when it seems to flee from him.... [ Continue Reading ]
The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous — For good. Anger appears in the whole face; love, chiefly in the eyes.... [ Continue Reading ]
Who is he that will harm you — None can.... [ Continue Reading ]
But if ye should suffer — This is no harm to you, but a good. Fear ye not their fear — The very words of the Septuagint, Isaiah 8:12. Let not that fear be in you which the wicked feel.... [ Continue Reading ]
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts — Have an holy fear, and a full trust in his wise providence. The hope — Of eternal life. With meekness — For anger would hurt your cause as well as your soul. And fear — A filial fear of offending God, and a jealousy over yourselves, lest ye speak amiss.... [ Continue Reading ]
Having a good conscience — So much the more beware of anger, to which the very consciousness of your innocence may betray you. Join with a good conscience meekness and fear, and you obtain a complete victory. Your good conversation in Christ — That is, which flows from faith in him.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is infinitely better, if it be the will of God, ye should suffer. His permissive will appears from his providence.... [ Continue Reading ]
For — This is undoubtedly best, whereby we are most conformed to Christ. Now Christ suffered once — To suffer no more. For sins — Not his own, but ours. The just for the unjust — The word signifies, not only them who have wronged their neighbours, but those who have transgressed any of the commands... [ Continue Reading ]
By which Spirit he preached — Through the ministry of Noah. To the spirits in prison — The unholy men before the flood, who were then reserved by the justice of God, as in a prison, till he executed the sentence upon them all; and are now also reserved to the judgment of the great day.... [ Continue Reading ]
When the longsuffering of God waited — For an hundred and twenty years; all the time the ark was preparing: during which Noah warned them all to flee from the wrath to come.... [ Continue Reading ]
The antitype whereof — The thing typified by the ark, even baptism, now saveth us — That is, through the water of baptism we are saved from the sin which overwhelms the world as a flood: not, indeed, the bare outward sign, but the inward grace; a divine consciousness that both our persons and our ac... [ Continue Reading ]
Angels and authorities and powers — That is, all orders both of angels and men.... [ Continue Reading ]