1 Peter 3:2

as they see your pure, reverent conduct.

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In The King James Version

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

In Context

1Again, those of you who are married women should accept the authority of your husbands, so that if any of them reject the message they may be won over without a message by the conduct of their wives,

3Yours should be, not the external adornment of the arrangement of the hair, the wearing of jewelry, or the putting on of dresses,

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Cross References

Ephesians 6:5Slaves, obey your earthly masters, with anxious care, giving them ungrudging service, as if obeying the Christ;

Philippians 3:20But we are citizens of heaven, and from heaven we expect a savior to come, the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 4:12Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but, by your conversation, your conduct, your love, your faith, and your purity, be an example to those who hold the faith.

1 Peter 2:12Let your daily life among the Gentiles be so upright, that, whenever they malign you as evildoers, they may learn, as they watch, from the uprightness of your conduct, to praise God ‘at the time when he will visit them.’

1 Peter 3:15Revere the Christ as Lord in your hearts; always ready to give an answer to anyone who asks your reason for the hope that you cherish, but giving it with courtesy and respect,

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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