Living as a Wife in Exile

Study Questions

1. What is Peter’s motivation for the command to wives in 3:1 (see also 2:12)?

2. What other command to wives is in this section, and how does it relate to the first command?

3. Does this verse teach that women wearing jewelry, doing their hair, or wearing nice clothes is wrong?

4. What is a “gentle and quiet spirit?”

5. Is there anything in this passage that applies to wives whose husbands are believers (see also Eph 5:22-24; Col 3:18)?

6. Why does Peter include the example of Sarah?

7. What does it mean to “not fear anything that is frightening”?