Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Peter 3:1

1 LIkewise ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word , they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives.

This he adds both to mitigate the difficulty of the Duty, subjection, in that they were their own Husbands to whom they were to be subject, and likewise to be bound and circumscribe their obedience, that it was to be only to their own Husbands, not to others; and so while he perswades them to subjection, he cautions them against unchastity.

The word of the Gospel. He exhorts not only them that had Beheving Husbands, but Unbelieving ones, to be in subjection to them.

Not that they could be converted to Christ without the knowledg of the Word, when Faith cometh by Hearing, Rom. 10.17. but that they who either would not endure their Wives instructing them, or, who had before rejected the Word; yet, by seeing the effects and fruits of it in their Wives, might be brought to have good thoughts of it, and thereby be the more prepared for the hearing of it, whereby Faith might be wrought in them.

Or, gained, viz. to Christ and his Church; the same Metaphor Paul useth, 1 Cor. 9.19, 20, 21. Phil. 3.8.

Marginal references: Eph. 5.22. Col. 3.18. Tit. 2.5.; 1 Cor. 7.16.