1 Peter 3:2

by observing your blameless and reverential conduct.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

In Context

1Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they may, without the word, be won by the conduct of their wives,

3Let not your adorning be that which is outward, which consists in plaiting the hair, and wearing gold, and putting on apparel:

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Cross References

Ephesians 6:5Servants, be subject to your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

Philippians 3:20But our citizenship is in heaven, whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Timothy 4:12Let no one despise your youth; but be an example to the believers, in word, in behavior, in love, in spirit, in faithfulness, in purity.

1 Peter 2:12maintaining an honorable mode of life am one the Gentiles, that, inasmuch as they speak against you as evil-doers, they may, on account of your good works which they witness, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:15but reverence the Lord God in your hearts, and be always ready to answer every one that asks of you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 3:2-8

Duties of Husbands and Wives. ( a. d. 66.) 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; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. 3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet… Read the whole commentary →

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