1 Peter 3:7 (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.
Catechism · 1
“It is a community of faith, hope, and charity; it assumes singular importance in the Church, as is evident in the New Testament.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Eph 5:21b: 4; Col 3:18-21; 1 Pet 3:1-7.
Fathers and councils · 9
Jerome
“See how he fashions the Church, and what lesson he teaches Christians: “Ye husbands in like manner dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honour 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.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 7.
Read the whole comment“The apostle Peter, too, speaks (of husbands and wives) ‘as being heirs together of the manifold grace of God.’” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 7; iv. 10.
Read the whole comment“However my words are addressed to those of both sexes, and not only to “the weaker vessel.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 7.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“But what we say is that of a virgin’s womb the Christ took pure flesh, holy and without spot, and made impervious to all sin, and restored the body that was His own.”” — editor's note: σκεῦος. cf. 2 Cor. iv. 7. 1 Thess. iv. 4. 1 Peter iii. 7. Cicero. Tusc. 1. 22 calls the body “vas animi.”
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Augustine of Hippo
“…bed be kept chaste with thy wife: and if thou desire to beget children, yet let there not be unbridled sensuality of lust: in thy bed give honour to thy wife, for ye are both members of Christ, both made by Him, both renewed by His Blood: so doing thou praisest God, nor will thy praise be altogether silent.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 7.
Read the whole comment“Husbands in like manner living at peace and in chastity with your wives, both give ye honor as to the weaker and subject vessel, as with co-heirs of grace, and see that your prayers be not hindered.”” — editor's note: 1 Peter iii. 1–7
Read the whole comment“…obeying their own husbands; even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters ye are made, well-doing, and not fearing any disturbance.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 5–7. [See R.V.]
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John Chrysostom
“Yet Paul allows thee not, who gives the wife likewise the same authority, for thus he speaks: “Let the husband render unto the wife due honor.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 3. In our copies of the Greek Testament, and in the mss. of St. Chrysostom, here it is, ενοιαν, not τιμν. But Mr. Field writes τιμν, 1. from…
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Tertullian
“What (of the fact) that she endured not to have been met alone; but in the presence of Adam, not yet her husband, not yet bound to lend her his ears, she is impatient of keeping silence, and makes him the transmitter of that which she had imbibed from the Evil One?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 3; compare also 1 Pet. iii. 7.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 7.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 7.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 7.
Cited together in Catechism §2204.
Cited together in Catechism §2204.
Cited together in Catechism §2204.
Cited together in Catechism §2204.
Cited together in Catechism §2204.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.