1 Peter 3:6
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
Sarah's obeying Abraham and calling him lord is the pattern of the holy women of old who trusted in God and adorned themselves by being in subjection to their own husbands. She reverenced him in this address, and is set forth as a worthy example in that reverence.
Those who follow that pattern are counted Sarah's daughters as long as they do well, and doing well is the hidden man of the heart with the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the sight of God, instead of outward adorning of plaiting the hair and wearing gold and putting on apparel. True adorning is therefore inward and not outward, and Christian wives and women enter that daughterhood on those terms.
Not being afraid with any amazement means not fearing that without outward show they will not in appearance be counted as superior to other people. In a wider sense it also means every soul is to live free from fearful amazement by trusting God's tender compassion toward His people, with a wondrous faith that leads in straight paths and keeps from misunderstanding His dealings and distrusting His love and faithfulness. That fearless faith is to increase whatever trials and sufferings come from fellow men, with no faintheartedness, no peevish repining, and no murmuring or complaining thoughts about God's providence and the hardships to be endured. It lays hold on the unseen and on the evidences of God's forgiveness, so that a single ray of evidence of His undeserved favor shining into the heart outweighs every trial however severe. The trustful soul does not murmur but reposes in God in contrition, carnal security is broken up, and there is peace through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Sarah was Abraham's first and only true wife, entitled to the rights and happiness of wife and mother that were not to be shared with another or claimed by any other woman in the household. Her guarding of those rights when she feared his affections would be divided with Hagar teaches that the marriage relation is sacred and its rights and happiness should be carefully guarded even at great sacrifice. God did not rebuke her for requiring the banishment of her rival and asking that Hagar and Ishmael be sent away so Ishmael would not share Isaac's inheritance. She was reproved for distrusting God's power when she took Hagar as a wife for Abraham in an attempt to secure the promised heir, but her place as wife did not mean surrendering her rights.
The verse belongs to home life of the greatest consequence, where ambition is not to meet the world's criterion and seek the applause of the world but to do the will of the heavenly Father and be a blessing, with a higher and holier experience lived and worked economically. Mothers must therefore guard children from hearing vain, foolish talk that treats outward adorning as of more consequence than inward grace, and must change unprofitable conversation about dress and what to wear to look nice. The verse also gives a message of great importance to ministers and the wives of ministers, meaning the convicting, converting power of the gospel must search the hearts of ministers and their families. Unsanctified, unconverted wives bring danger to ministers of the gospel and leave an irreligious element in their homes, so ministers must labor with zeal for their unsanctified companions and the churches must show the same zeal, in order that wives do well as daughters of Sarah.