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1 Peter 3:2

MarriagePurity

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;

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 spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

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BSB
when they see your pure and reverent demeanor.
KJV
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
WEB
seeing your pure behavior in fear.
ASV
beholding your chaste behavior [coupled] with fear.
DARBY
having witnessed your pure conversation [carried out] in fear;
BLB
having witnessed your⁺ respectful, pure conduct,
ÅB
når de ser for sine øyne deres rene ferd i frykt.
OTB
når de ser deres rene og respektfulle oppførsel.
B1930
når de ser for sine øine eders rene ferd i frykt.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 1 Peter 2:12

    Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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  • 1 Peter 1:15

    But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

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  • Philippians 1:27

    Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

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  • Ephesians 5:33

    Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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  • 2 Peter 3:11

    Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

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  • Ephesians 6:5

    Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

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  • 1 Peter 3:15–16

    But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

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  • 1 Peter 3:5–6

    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:

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