1 Peter 3:5

For this is how the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves in the past, by submitting to their own husbands,

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In The King James Version

For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

In Context

4Rather, let your adornment be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God's sight.

6just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You have become her children if you do good and do not give way to fear.

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Cross References

Luke 2:37and she was a widow of about eighty-four years of age. She did not depart from the temple, but served night and day with fasting and prayer.

Acts 1:14With one accord they were all devoting themselves to prayer and supplication, along with Jesus' brothers and several women, including Mary the mother of Jesus.

1 Timothy 2:10but with good works, which is proper for women who profess godly reverence.

1 Timothy 5:5Now a woman who is truly a widow and left all alone has put her hope in God and continues night and day in her supplications and prayers.

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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