1 Peter 3:2

when they observe your chaste conduct with fear.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

In Context

1Wives, likewise, subject yourselves to your own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the word, that by the conduct of their wives, without a word, they shall be gained for Christ,

3Of whom let it not be the outward adorning of braiding of hair, and wearing of gold, or of putting on of fine clothes,

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Cross References

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

Philippians 3:20For our citizenship exists in heaven, from which also we eagerly await for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Timothy 4:12Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather become a pattern for the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

1 Peter 2:12having your manner of life noble among the Gentiles, so that, whenever they speak against you as evildoers, when they observe the good works, they may glorify God in the day of visitation. 1 Submission to Government

1 Peter 3:15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be prepared with a defense to everyone who asks 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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