1 Peter 3:7

5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
KJV
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
WEB
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
ASV
Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
DARBY
[Ye] husbands likewise, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, as with a weaker, [even] the female, vessel, giving [them] honour, as also fellow-heirs of [the] grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
BLB
Husbands [do] likewise, dwelling with [them] according to knowledge, as with a weaker vessel, with the female, rendering honor as co-heirs also of the grace of life, in order for your⁺ prayers not to be hindered.
ÅB
Likeså dere ektemenn: Lev med forstand sammen med deres hustruer som det svakere kar, og vis dem ære, da de og er medarvinger til livets nåde, for at deres bønner ikke skal hindres.
OTB
Dere menn, på samme måte, lev med deres hustruer på en forståelsesfull måte, som med en svakere person, siden hun er en kvinne; og vis henne ære som en medarving av livets nåde, slik at deres bønner ikke blir hindret.
B1930
Likeså I ektemenn: Lev med forstand sammen med eders hustruer som det svakere kar, og vis dem ære, da de og er medarvinger til livets nåde, forat eders bønner ikke skal hindres.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Colossians 3:19

    Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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  • Genesis 2:23–24

    And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

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  • Ephesians 5:25–28

    Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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  • Matthew 19:3–9

    The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

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  • 1 Corinthians 7:3

    Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

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  • Ephesians 5:33

    Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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  • Malachi 2:14–16

    Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

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  • Matthew 18:19

    Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

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