1 Peter 3:2

when they behold your chaste deportment coupled with fear.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

In Context

1IN like manner, ye wives, being in subjection to your own husbands; that even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be won by the deportment of their wives,

3Whose adorning, let it not be the outward one of braiding the hair, and of wearing golden ornaments, or of putting on apparel;

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Cross References

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

Philippians 3:20For our citizenship[3:20] is in heaven; from whence we also look for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

1 Timothy 4:12Let no one despise thy youth; but become an example of the believers, in word, in deportment, in love, in faith, in purity.

1 Peter 2:12having your deportment honorable among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may from your good works, beholding them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:15but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts; ready always to give an answer to every one that asks you a reason of 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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