1 Peter 3:2
when they behold your chaste behavior coupled with fear.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
In Context
Cross References
Ephesians 6:5Bond-servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as serving Christ;
Philippians 3:20For the country of which we are citizens is heaven, whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Timothy 4:12Let no one despise thy youth, but become an example to the believers, in word, in behavior, in love, in faith, in purity.
1 Peter 2:12having your manner of life among the gentiles honorable; that, whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
1 Peter 3:15but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. And be ready always to give an answer to every one that asketh you a reason 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 →