2. Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,  when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.  For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,  as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.

3.  Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
1 Peter 3:1-7

4.  Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
1 Peter 3:1-7

5. Domestic Violence

6. Domestic Violence
Sexual Infidelity

7. Domestic Violence
Sexual Infidelity
Providing for the family

8.  Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
1 Peter 3:1-7

9. Peter makes a two-fold assumption

10. Peter makes a two-fold assumption
Men will be praying.

11. Peter makes a two-fold assumption
Men will be praying.
The warning/threat that their prayers will prove ineffective would be enough to convince them to change.

12. Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,  when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.  For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,  as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.

13. Sarah had a husband who prayed.

14. Sarah had a husband who prayed.
What did it get her?

15. Sarah had a husband who prayed.
What did it get her?
As an old woman, she left her home and family, travelled with her husband to live in a foreign land, and spend the rest of her days living in a tent.

16. Sarah had a husband who prayed.
What did it get her?
As an old woman, she left her home and family, travelled with her husband to live in a foreign land, and spend the rest of her days living in a tent.
And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, ‘This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, “He is my brother.”
Genesis 20:13 (ESV)

17. Sarah had a husband who prayed.
What did it get her?
As an old woman, she left her home and family, travelled with her husband to live in a foreign land, and spend the rest of her days living in a tent.
She does become the mother of Isaac. He was the man through whom God would bring the messiah.

18. Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,  when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.  For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,  as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.

19. Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,  when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.  For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,  as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.

20. Salvation is an ever present reality.

21. Salvation is an ever present reality.
Submission is one way that God works out our salvation.

22. Salvation is an ever present reality.
Submission is one way that God works out our salvation.
Times of trial our when our faith is most tested.