when they see your pure and reverent demeanor.
Parallel translations
- WEB seeing your pure behavior in fear.
- KJV While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
- 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 2:12Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
- 1 Pet 1:15But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
- Phil 1:27Nevertheless, 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 one spirit, contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,
- Eph 5:33Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
- 2 Pet 3:11Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to conduct yourselves in holiness and godliness
- 1 Pet 3:5–6For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,
- Eph 6:5Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.
- 1 Pet 3:15–16But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you. But respond with gentleness and respect,
- Col 3:22Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.
- Phil 3:20But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
- 1 Tim 4:12Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
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