New American Standard Bible 2020
1 Peter 3:2
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
1In the same way, you wives, be subject to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won over without a word by the behavior of their wives, as they observe your pure and respectful behavior. 3Your adornment must not be merely the external--braiding the hair, wearing gold jewelry, or putting on apparel; 4but it should be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God.
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 3:16and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who disparage your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.
- 1 Peter 1:15but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior;
- 1 Peter 2:12Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God on the day of visitation.
- Philippians 1:27Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear about you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
- Philippians 3:20For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
- 1 Timothy 4:12Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe.
- 2 Peter 3:11Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
- 1 Peter 3:5For in this way the holy women of former times, who hoped in God, also used to adorn themselves, being subject to their own husbands,
- Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.
- Ephesians 6:5Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;
- Colossians 3:22Slaves, obey those who are your human masters in everything, not with eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity 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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- 1. 1 Peter 3:2 Lit with respect ↩
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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