and has been a widow [all these years], and is now eighty-four years old.) She has never left the Temple, but worships [God] by fasting [i.e., going without food and/or water for religious reasons] and praying night and day.
1 Peter 3:5 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) For this is the way holy women in ancient times decorated themselves. Their hope was in God and they were known for being in subjection to their own husbands. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For it was thus that the pious women of old who hoped in God were [accustomed] to beautify themselves and were submissive to their husbands [adapting themselves to them as themselves secondary and dependent upon them]. American Standard Version (1901) For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: Common English Bible For it was in this way that holy women who trusted in God used to make themselves beautiful, accepting the authority of their own husbands. Catholic Public Domain Version For in this way, in past times also, holy women adorned themselves, hoping in God, being subject to their own husbands. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For after this manner heretofore the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: |
and has been a widow [all these years], and is now eighty-four years old.) She has never left the Temple, but worships [God] by fasting [i.e., going without food and/or water for religious reasons] and praying night and day.
These men continued in united prayer [for the kingdom to come (?); See 1:6; Matt. 6:10] along with [certain] women, Mary the mother of Jesus and His [half-] brothers.
Now at Joppa [Note: This was also a town on the west coast of Palestine, today called “Jaffa,” and is now a part of Tel Aviv] there was a certain disciple named Tabitha (she was also called Dorcas, which means “Gazelle”). She practiced many good deeds and always gave money to poor people.
However, each of you men individually should also love his own wife the way he loves himself. And the wife should respect her husband.
but with good deeds, which are [more] appropriate for women who claim to be godly.
But she [i.e., womankind] will be saved [from condemnation, in spite of the “curse” of suffering pain] through childbearing [See Gen. 3:16], provided they [i.e., all women] continue to have faith and love and holiness, along with discretion.
having a reputation for doing good deeds, [such as] bringing up children, showing hospitality to strangers, washing the feet of the saints [i.e., God’s holy people], assisting people in trouble and devoting herself to doing all [other] kinds of good deeds.
Now the woman who is a true widow, and living all alone, has placed her hope in God and continues [to offer] special requests and prayers [for help (?)] night and day.
By [having] faith, Sarah herself received the ability to have children, even though she was [sterile, being] past the age of child-bearing, since she considered God faithful to His promise. [Note: Some translations consider “Abraham” to be the subject of this controversial verse. See Lightfoot, pp. 222-225].
God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is to be praised for being so merciful as to have given us a new birth, which provides for us a hope of never ending life through the means of Jesus Christ’s return from the dead.