1 Peter 3:1–7 is Peter’s second application (after 1 Peter 2:18–25) of the principle of 1 Peter 2:13, Be subject…to every human institution
(with its consequent demand to honor everyone,
1 Peter 2:17). Peter was aware that that instruction would raise many practical questions rooted in real life, such as how to honor
an inconsiderate, absent, or despotic husband, let alone be subject
to him. Through his focus on marriage in the present passage, Peter adds colour to what he wrote in 1 Peter 2:13. This helps today’s reader find fitting consequences for the principle of 1 Peter 2:13 in our changed circumstances.
1 Femmes, que chacune soit de même soumise à son mari, afin que, si quelques-uns n'obéissent point à la parole, ils soient gagnés sans parole par la conduite de leur femme,