1 Peter 3:2

beholding your chaste conversation in the fear of God.

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

In Context

1Ye women likewise, be subject to your own husbands, that if any believe not the word, they may yet without the word be gained over by the deportment of the wives,

3Whose adorning, let it not be that without, of plaiting the hair, and putting on of gold, or wearing fine clothes;

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Cross References

Ephesians 6:5Servants, obey them that are your masters according to the flesh, with reverential fear, in the simplicity of your heart, as unto Christ:

Philippians 3:20from whence also we expect the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ: who will change our vile body,

1 Timothy 4:12Let no one have cause to despise thy youth; but he thou an example to believers in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

1 Peter 2:12having a good conversation among the Gentiles; that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of their visitation, on account of the good works which they behold in you.

1 Peter 3:15and be always ready to answer every one that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and reverence:

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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