1 Peter 3:2

having beheld your pure behavior in fear,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

In Context

1Wives, be subject to your own husbands in like manner, that even if some are disobedient to the word, they may be won through the behavior of the wives without the word,

3whose adorning—let it not be that which is outward, of braiding of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

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Cross References

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

Philippians 3:20For our citizenship is in the heavens, from where we also await a Savior—the Lord Jesus Christ—

1 Timothy 4:12let no one despise your youth, but become a pattern of those believing in word, in behavior, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

1 Peter 2:12having your behavior right among the nations, so that whenever they speak against you as evildoers, seeing [your] good works, they may glorify God in [the] day of inspection.

1 Peter 3:15but sanctify the LORD God in your hearts. And always [be] ready for defense to everyone who is asking of you an account concerning 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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