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1 Peter 3:2
2having witnessed your pure conversation [carried out] in fear;
1 Peter 3:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
- New International Version (NIV)when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.
- English Standard Version (ESV)when they see your respectful and pure conduct.
- New King James Version (NKJV)when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear.
Context of 1 Peter 3:2
1Likewise, wives, [be] subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without [the] word by the conversation of the wives, having witnessed your pure conversation [carried out] in fear; 3whose adorning let it not be that outward one of tressing of hair, and wearing gold, or putting on apparel; 4but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price.
Read all of 1 Peter 31 Peter 3:2 word by word
ἐποπτεύσαντες τὴν ἐν φόβῳ ἁγνὴν ἀναστροφὴν ὑμῶν·Read the interlinear
Cross-references for 1 Peter 3:2
- 1 Peter 3:16having a good conscience, that [as to that] in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ.
- 1 Peter 1:15but as he who has called you is holy, be ye also holy in all [your] conversation;
- 1 Peter 2:12having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that [as to that] in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through [your] good works, [themselves] witnessing [them], glorify God in [the] day of visitation.
- Philippians 1:27Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;
- Philippians 3:20for our commonwealth has its existence in [the] heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ [as] Saviour,
- 1 Timothy 4:12Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
- 2 Peter 3:11All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness,
- 1 Peter 3:5For thus also the holy women who have hoped in God heretofore adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands;
- Ephesians 5:33But ye also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife [I speak] that she may fear the husband.
- Ephesians 6:5Bondmen, obey masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ;
- Colossians 3:22Bondmen, obey in all things your masters according to flesh; not with eye-services, as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing the Lord.
Commentaries on 1 Peter 3:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Chaste conversation - with fear - While they see that ye join modesty, chastity, and the purest manners, to the fear of God. Or perhaps fear, , is taken, as in Ephesians 5:33, for the reverence due to the husband.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2While they behold your chaste conversation - Your pure conduct. The word chaste here ( ̔̀ hagnēn) refer‘s to purity of conduct in all respects, and not merely to chastity properly so called. It includes that, but it also embraces much more. The conduct of the wife is to be in all respects pure; and this is to be the grand instrumentality in the conversion of her husband. A wife may be strictly chaste, and yet there may be many other things in her conduct…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-7The last of Peter’s three teachings about accepting authority speaks to wives and husbands (2:13–3:7; compare Ephesians 5:21–33; Colossians 3:18–19).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. behold--on narrowly looking into it, literally, "having closely observed." chaste--pure, spotless, free from all impurity. fear--reverential, towards your husbands. Scrupulously pure, as opposed to the noisy, ambitious character of worldly women.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Peter 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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