“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;”
Wives, in the same way, be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not obey the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives — the exhortation to submission (hypotassō) is grounded in the broader pattern of submission to authority (cf. 2:18-25). The goal is that Christian wives might win over ('kerdomai, gain as a prize') non-believing husbands through 'manner of life' (anastrrophē) rather than speech, establishing the apologetic power of virtue.
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