While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Parallel translations
- WEB seeing your pure behavior in 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.
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- 1 Pet 2:12Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
- 1 Pet 1:15But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
- Phil 1:27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
- Eph 5:33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
- 2 Pet 3:11Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
- 1 Pet 3:5–6For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
- Eph 6:5Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
- 1 Pet 3:15–16But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
- Col 3:22Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
- Phil 3:20For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
- 1 Tim 4:12Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
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