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.
KJV
οἱ ἄνδρες ὁμοίως συνοικοῦντες κατὰ γνῶσιν, ὡς ἀσθενεστέρῳ σκεύει τῷ γυναικείῳ ἀπονέμοντες τιμήν, ὡς καὶ συνκληρονόμοις χάριτος ζωῆς, εἰς τὸ μὴ ἐνκόπτεσθαι τὰς προσευχὰς ὑμῶν.
Greek NT
Viri similiter cohabitantes secundum scientiam, quasi infirmiori vasculo muliebri impartientes honorem, tamquam et cohæredibus gratiæ vitæ : ut non impediantur orationes vestræ.
Vulgate
Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording 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.
ASV
Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
21 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- συγκληρονόμοις — SBLGNT
- συγκληρονόμοις — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- συγκληρονόμοι — Robinson-Pierpont
Themes
Doctrines that cite this verse
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5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2204"The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called a domestic church."9 It is a community of faith, hope, and charity; it assumes singular importance in the Church, as is evident in the New Testament.10
1. The Power of Harmony in Relation to Prayer. Again I say unto you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them. Matthew 18:19 The word symphony is strictly applied to the harmonies of sounds in music. And there are indeed among musical sounds some accordant and others discordant. But the Evangelic Scripture is fam…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 7:3 — Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
- 1Cor 7:3 — Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
- 1Cor 7:33 — But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
- 1Cor 14:35 — And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
- 1Pet 3:1 — Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
- 1Pet 4:7 — But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
- 1Thess 4:4 — That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
- 1Thess 4:4 — That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
- 1Tim 2:8 — I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
- 1Tim 5:3 — Honour widows that are widows indeed.
- 2Pet 1:5 — And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
- Col 3:19 — Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
- Col 3:19 — Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
- Eph 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
- Eph 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
- Eph 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.
- Gen 2:18 — And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
- Gen 2:23 — 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.
- Heb 6:17 — Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
- Mal 2:14 — 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.
- Matt 5:24 — Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
- Matt 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.
- Matt 19:3 — 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?
- Prov 5:15 — Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
- Rom 13:7 — Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.