New International Version
1 Peter 3:2
2when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.
1 Peter 3:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)by observing your pure and reverent lives.
Context of 1 Peter 3:2
1Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. 3Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. 4Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.
Read all of 1 Peter 31 Peter 3:2 word by word
ἐποπτεύσαντες τὴν ἐν φόβῳ ἁγνὴν ἀναστροφὴν ὑμῶν·Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for 1 Peter 3:2
- 1 Peter 3:16keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.
- 1 Peter 1:15But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;
- 1 Peter 2:12Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
- Philippians 1:27Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in the one Spirit, striving together as one for the faith of the gospel
- Philippians 3:20But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
- 1 Timothy 4:12Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.
- 2 Peter 3:11Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives
- 1 Peter 3:5For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands,
- Ephesians 5:33However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
- Ephesians 6:5Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.
- Colossians 3:22Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for 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
Topics related to 1 Peter 3:2
In the dictionaries
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
New International Version — © NIV® 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica
Commentaries