# In the same way, you who are wives should submit to your own husbands

Just as believers are to "Obey every human authority" (1 Peter 2:13) and servants are to "be subject" to their masters (1 Peter 2:18), wives are to submit to their husbands. The words "Obey," "be subject," and "submit" translate the same word.

# some men are disobedient to the word

"some men do not believe the message about Jesus" 

# they may be won

"they may be persuaded to believe in Christ" or "they may become believers" 

# without a word

"without the wife saying a word." Here "a word" refers to anything the wife might speak about Jesus.