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1 Peter 3:7

1 Peter 3:7
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.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them,.... "With your wives", as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions read; which not only included dwelling together in the same house, and bedding together in the same…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Likewise, ye husbands - On the general duty of husbands, see the notes at Eph 5:25 ff. Dwell with them - That is, “Let your manner of living with them be that which is immediately specified.”…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Dwell with them according to knowledge - Give your wives, by no species of unkind carriage, any excuse for delinquency. How can a man expect his wife to be faithful to him, if he be unfaithful to her?…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Peter 3:1-7

The apostle having treated of the duties of subjects to their sovereigns, and of servants to their masters, proceeds to explain the duty of husbands and wives.

I. Lest the Christian matrons should…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

dwell with them according to knowledge It is significant that while the Apostle dwells emphatically on the case of Christian women who have unbelieving husbands, his exhortations to men seem to take…