Lesson 9: Marriage - The Wordless Gospel
Questions 6, 7, and 8
“Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 1 Peter 3:4
Question 6. Where does 1 Peter 3:4 say that a wife's “unfading beauty” comes from?
Question 7. How long does this inner beauty last and what is its worth?
Notice how the “holy women” of the past made themselves beautiful by putting their “hope in God.”
“For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, 6 like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.” 1 Peter 3:5-6
Question 8. How did these holy women make themselves beautiful? Please share.
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These verses in light of the gospel are a beautiful picture of God’s design for marriage. Wives are not to ‘give way to fear’ but called to be ‘daughters of Sarah’, who herself did not give way to fear but placed her hope in God.
“Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers” 1 Peter 3:7 (NIV).
Erick wrote; "It hurts my heart to read this passage as I was not considerate with Sylvia, but inconsiderate. I did not treat her with respect but disrespected her with words, my thoughts and my deeds. During our first 17 years of marriage, while living in the chains and slavery to sin, I didn’t protect her but took advantage of her. Our prayers together were hindered because I was too busy living for myself. Our prayers were hindered because I wasn’t living in the gospels power as a new creation. But to see Sylvia through the eyes of Jesus and ‘heirs’ together as husband and wife of the ‘gracious gift of life’ has changed everything. The gracious gift through Jesus’ body who, “bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness."