Reason. Because upon him alone depends our salvation and the direction of our lives.
Vse. This may serve to admonish us, not to leave Christ so much as in the least thing, but to cleave faster and faster unto him.
Chapter III.
Verse 1. Likewise yee wives be in subjection to your owne husbands, that if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be wonne by the conversation of the wives.
Verse 2. While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with feare:
Verse 3. Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the haire, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparell.
Verse 4. But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meeke and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Verse 5. For after this manner in the old time, the holy women also who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their owne husbands.