seeing your pure behavior in fear.
Parallel translations
- KJV While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
- BSB when they see your pure and reverent demeanor.
- NKJV when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear.
- NASB as they observe your pure and respectful behavior.
- NLT by observing your pure and reverent lives.
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Quick answer
Husbands may be won as they observe their wives' pure and reverent conduct. A life marked by purity and reverence is a persuasive testimony.
Overview
Continuing from the previous verse, Peter specifies what wins an unbelieving husband: 'pure behavior in fear.' The 'fear' is reverence toward God, which shapes the wife's purity and respect. Such observable godliness, more than argument, commends the gospel within the home.
Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Pet 2:12having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
- 1 Pet 1:15but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
- Phil 1:27Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
- Eph 5:33Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
- 2 Pet 3:11Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
- 1 Pet 3:5–6For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
- Eph 6:5Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;
- 1 Pet 3:15–16But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:
- Col 3:22Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
- Phil 3:20For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
- 1 Tim 4:12Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
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