A GODLY WIFE: THE INFLUENCE OF A BEAUTIFUL LIFE

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A GODLY WIFE THE INFLUENCE OF A BEAUTIFUL
LIFE

• (1 Peter 31-6)

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A GODLY WIFE THE INFLUENCE OF A BEAUTIFUL LIFE
I. A BEAUTIFUL LIFE IS NOT ALWAYS AN EASY LIFE, 1
Pet. 218-25 Lk. 1426-28
II. THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN WIFE, Jn.
638
A. Duties
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Duties of the Wife

• Loves God above all, 1 Pet. 18 Matt. 2237 1
  Sam. 110-11
• Puts her husband above herself, 1 Pet. 31 Eph.
  522 Gen. 218 Eph. 533 Prov. 913 2119
• Cares for her children, 1 Tim. 215 514
• Rules the household, 1 Tim. 515 Titus 25

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A GODLY WIFE THE INFLUENCE OF A BEAUTIFUL LIFE
I. A BEAUTIFUL LIFE IS NOT ALWAYS AN EASY LIFE, 1
Pet. 218-25 Lk. 1426-28
II. THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN WIFE, Jn.
638
A. Duties
B. Behavior
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Behavior of the Wife
Contrast past lives 1 Pet. 43, lasciviousness

• Chaste

"unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness,
lascivious- ness (tending to excite lust,
Webster), wanton- ness, outrageousness,
shamelessness, insolence . wanton (acts or) man-
ners, as filthy words, in- decent bodily
movements, unchaste handling of males and
females, etc." (Thayer, pp. 79-80)
1. exciting rever- ence, venerable, sac- red.
2. pure. a. pure from carnality, chaste,
modest. b. pure from every fault, immaculate
(Thayer, p. 8)
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Behavior of the Wife

• Chaste

• This will show itself in
• choice of entertain- ment
• speech
• dress

1. exciting rever- ence, venerable, sac- red.
2. pure. a. pure from carnality, chaste,
modest. b. pure from every fault, immaculate
(Thayer, p. 8)
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DRESS
Please contrast
In like manner, that women adorn them- selves in
modest apparel, with shame- fastness and sobri-
ety not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or
costly raiment. (1 Tim. 29)
And, behold, there met him a woman With the
attire of a harlot, and wily of heart. (Prov.
710)
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Behavior of the Wife

• Chaste

• Fear, Eph. 533
• Kind, Titus 25 Prov. 3126

"1. fit for use, useful virtuous, good. 2.
manageable, i.e. mild, pleasant (opp. to harsh,
hard, sharp, bitter)....of persons, kind,
benevolent" (Thayer, p. 671) Lk. 635 Prov
1922 1 Pet. 35 Eph. 525
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A GODLY WIFE THE INFLUENCE OF A BEAUTIFUL LIFE
I. A BEAUTIFUL LIFE IS NOT ALWAYS AN EASY LIFE, 1
Pet. 218-25 Lk. 1426-28
II. THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN WIFE, Jn.
638
A. Duties
B. Behavior
III. PERSISTANCE, Jdgs. 1616 Matt. 1521-28
Lk. 181-5 Prov. 3112 Phil. 212
IV. THE HEART OF THE FAITHFUL WIFE, Prov. 423
A. Kept by the power of God through faith, 1
Pet. 15
B. Sober-minded, Titus 25
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Sober-minded
a. of sound mined, sane, in ones senses. b.
curbing ones desires and impulses,
self-controlled, temperate (Thayer, p. 613)
Soberness It is that habitual inner self-
government, with its constant rein on all the
passions and desires, which would hinder the
temptation to this from arising, or at all events
from arising in such strength as should
overbear...checks and barriers (R.C. Trench,
Synonyms of the New Testament, p. 72)
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A GODLY WIFE THE INFLUENCE OF A BEAUTIFUL LIFE
I. A BEAUTIFUL LIFE IS NOT ALWAYS AN EASY LIFE, 1
Pet. 218-25 Lk. 1426-28
II. THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN WIFE, Jn.
638
A. Duties
B. Behavior
III. PERSISTANCE, Jdgs. 1616 Matt. 1521-28
Lk. 181-5 Prov. 3112 Phil. 212
IV. THE HEART OF THE FAITHFUL WIFE, Prov. 423
A. Kept by the power of God through faith, 1
Pet. 15
B. Sober-minded, Titus 25