1 Peter 3:2
being eye-witnesses of your chaste behaviour with timidity.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
In Context
Cross References
Ephesians 6:5Servants, be obedient to your masters after the flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as unto Christ;
Philippians 3:20But our conversation is in heaven as its citizens, from whence also we are expecting the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Timothy 4:12Let no man despise thy youth; but be a pattern of the faithful, in discourse; in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
1 Peter 2:12having your conduct ornamental among the Gentiles: that, whereas they malign you as wicked doers, they may, being eye-witnesses of your good works, glorify God in the day when he visits them.
1 Peter 3:15but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be always ready with your reply to every man who demands a reason respecting the hope which 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 →