1 Peter 3:2

having witnessed your pure conversation [carried out] in fear;

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

In Context

1Likewise, wives, [be] subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without [the] word by the conversation of the wives,

3whose adorning let it not be that outward one of tressing of hair, and wearing gold, or putting on apparel;

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Cross References

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

Philippians 3:20for *our* commonwealth has its existence in [the] heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ [as] Saviour,

1 Timothy 4:12Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

1 Peter 2:12having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that [as to that] in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through [your] good works, [themselves] witnessing [them], glorify God in [the] day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:15but sanctify [the] Lord the Christ in your hearts, and [be] always prepared to [give] an answer [to] every one that asks you to give an account of the hope that [is] in you, but 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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