In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
"Obey not" means "not to allow oneself to be persuaded; not to comply with; to refuse or withhold belief" (Thayer, 55-2-544). Wuest comments about these words: "These husbands were of the obstinate, non-persuadably type that would not listen to reason (Wuest, I Peter, 72).