Der Pilger
Puritan Board Freshman
I've often wondered about this text:
"In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior." (1 Peter 3:1-2, NASB)
Does this indicate that regeneration and salvation are possible without the preaching of the gospel? I doubt it, since so much else in the NT militates against that idea, so I wonder if something else is meant by the phrase "won without a word." Any thoughts on this?
"In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior." (1 Peter 3:1-2, NASB)
Does this indicate that regeneration and salvation are possible without the preaching of the gospel? I doubt it, since so much else in the NT militates against that idea, so I wonder if something else is meant by the phrase "won without a word." Any thoughts on this?