1 Peter 3:2
New International Version
when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.

New Living Translation
by observing your pure and reverent lives.

English Standard Version
when they see your respectful and pure conduct.

Berean Standard Bible
when they see your pure and reverent demeanor.

Berean Literal Bible
having witnessed your respectful, pure conduct,

King James Bible
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

New King James Version
when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear.

New American Standard Bible
as they observe your pure and respectful behavior.

NASB 1995
as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior.

NASB 1977
as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior.

Legacy Standard Bible
as they observe your pure conduct with fear.

Amplified Bible
when they see your modest and respectful behavior [together with your devotion and appreciation—love your husband, encourage him, and enjoy him as a blessing from God].

Christian Standard Bible
when they observe your pure, reverent lives.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
when they observe your pure, reverent lives.

American Standard Version
beholding your chaste behavior coupled with fear.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
When they see that you conduct yourselves in reverence and discretion.

Contemporary English Version
because he will see how you honor God and live a pure life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Considering your chaste conversation with fear.

English Revised Version
beholding your chaste behaviour coupled with fear.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Their husbands would see how pure and reverent their lives are.

Good News Translation
because they will see how pure and reverent your conduct is.

International Standard Version
when they see your pure and reverent lives.

Literal Standard Version
having beheld your pure behavior in fear,

Majority Standard Bible
when they see your pure and reverent demeanor.

New American Bible
when they observe your reverent and chaste behavior.

NET Bible
when they see your pure and reverent conduct.

New Revised Standard Version
when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.

New Heart English Bible
seeing your pure behavior in fear.

Webster's Bible Translation
While they behold your chaste manner of life coupled with fear.

Weymouth New Testament
so full of reverence, and so blameless!

World English Bible
seeing your pure behavior in fear.

Young's Literal Translation
having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,

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Context
Wives and Husbands
1Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives 2when they see your pure and reverent demeanor. 3Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,…

Cross References
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

1 Peter 3:1
Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives

1 Peter 3:3
Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,


Treasury of Scripture

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

behold.

1 Peter 3:16
Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

1 Peter 1:15
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

1 Peter 2:12
Having 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.

with.

1 Peter 3:5,6,15
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: …

Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Ephesians 6:5
Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

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1 Peter 3
1. He teaches the duty of wives and husbands to each other;
8. exhorting all men to unity and love;
14. and to suffer persecution.
19. He declares also the benefits of Christ toward the old world.














(2) While they behold . . .--The same curious word as in 1Peter 2:12, and the tense, which is ill-represented by "while they behold," sets us at the moment of the triumph of the wife's conduct, literally; having kept, or when they have kept an eye on your chaste conversation. The husband is jealously on the watch to see what his wife does who has embraced these foolish notions; at last he breaks down. Jesus must be the Messiah, or his wife could not have been so chaste! The adjective "chaste" is here to be taken in a large sense; it is the same which enters into the verb translated "purify" in 1Peter 1:22, and it is implied that the "fear" (i.e., of the husband; comp. Note on 1Peter 2:18) has been an incentive to this sweet virtue; "your life so immaculate in fear," or even almost "so timidly pure." Leighton says, "It is a delicate, timorous grace, afraid of the least air, or shadow of anything that hath but a resemblance of wronging it, in carriage or speech, or apparel, as follows in the third and fourth verses."

Verse 2. - While they behold (see note on 1 Peter 2:12, where the same verb occurs) your chaste conversation coupled with fear; literally, your chaste behavior, in fear. Bengel and others understand the fear of God. Certainly the holy fear of God is the sphere in which true Christians must always live. But the close connection with the word "chaste (τὴν ἐν φόβῳ ἁγνὴν ἀναστροφὴν ὑμῶν), and the parallel passage, Ephesians 5:33 (in the Greek), make it probable that the fear here inculcated is reverence for the husband - an anxious avoidance of anything that might even seem to interfere with his conjugal rights and authority.

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Greek
when they see
ἐποπτεύσαντες (epopteusantes)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 2029: To be an eyewitness of, behold, look upon. From epi and a derivative of optanomai; to inspect, i.e. Watch.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

pure
ἁγνὴν (hagnēn)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 53: From the same as hagios; properly, clean, i.e. innocent, modest, perfect.

[and] reverent
φόβῳ (phobō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5401: (a) fear, terror, alarm, (b) the object or cause of fear, (c) reverence, respect. From a primary phebomai; alarm or fright.

demeanor.
ἀναστροφὴν (anastrophēn)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 391: Dealing with other men, conduct, life, behavior, manner of life. From anastrepho; behavior.


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