1 Peter 3:2

Mace New Testament

by observing the religious chastity of their manners.

Parallel Translations

New American Standard Bible (1995)
as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior.

Simplified Cowboy Version
They will see how pure and reverent you are.

Bible in Basic English
When they see your holy behaviour in the fear of God.

Darby Translation
having witnessed your pure conversation [carried out] in fear;

World English Bible
seeing your pure behavior in fear.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Beholding your chaste conversation joined with fear:

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

King James Version (1611)
While they beholde your chaste conuersation coupled with feare:

Literal Translation
observing your pure behavior in fear.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
whan they beholde yor pure conuersacion in feare.

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].

American Standard Version
beholding your chaste behavior coupled with fear.

Revised Standard Version
when they see your reverent and chaste behavior.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
whill they beholde youre pure coversacion coupled with feare.

Update Bible Version
watching your chaste behavior [coupled] with fear.

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

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

New Century Version
Your husbands will see the pure lives you live with your respect for God.

New English Translation
when they see your pure and reverent conduct.

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
as they see your respectful and pure behavior.

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
While they beholde your pure conuersation, which is with feare.

George Lamsa Translation
When they see that you conduct yourselves with respect and modesty.

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

Hebrew Names Version
seeing your pure behavior in fear.

International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
while they see that with reverence and with chastity you conduct yourselves.

Murdock Translation
when they see, that ye conduct yourselves with reverence and chastity.

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

New Living Translation
by observing your pure and reverent lives.

New Life Bible
They will see how you love God and how your lives are pure.

English Revised Version
beholding your chaste behaviour [coupled] with fear.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Having been permitted to behold your reverently chaste behaviour, -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Considering your chaste conversation with fear.

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

Lexham English Bible
when they see your respectful, pure conduct.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whyle they beholde your chaste conuersation coupled with feare.

Easy-to-Read Version
Your husbands will see the pure lives that you live with respect for God.

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

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And biholde ye in drede youre hooli conuersacioun.

Contextual Overview

¹ Let the married women be subservient to their husbands, that if they happen to disbelieve the gospel, they may be gain'd by the instructive conduct of their wives, ² by observing the religious chastity of their manners. ³ let their ornament consist, not in what is external, in curling the hair, in appendages of gold, or finery of dress; ⁴ but in the internal qualities of the mind, in that purity, in that mild and dispassionate temper, which is so acceptable to the divine being. ⁵ the holy religious women of former times were thus adorned, and were submissive to their husbands. ⁶ such was Sarah, who show'd her obeysance to Abraham, by stiling him her Lord: and you will be stiled her children, if you imitate her conduct, and are not to be terrified out of your virtue. ⁷ You husbands, do you on your part behave with prudence towards your wives: who being of a more delicate make, ought to be treated with the greater tenderness: and consider they are equally intitled to the evangelical gifts, that your prayers may not be frustrated.

Bible Verse Review
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behold: 1 Peter 3:16, 1 Peter 1:15, 1 Peter 2:12, Philippians 1:27, Philippians 3:20, 1 Timothy 4:12, 2 Peter 3:11

with: 1 Peter 3:5, 1 Peter 3:6, 1 Peter 3:15, Ephesians 5:33, Ephesians 6:5, Colossians 3:22

Reciprocal: Matthew 6:29 - even John 15:16 - that your 1 Corinthians 7:16 - O wife James 3:13 - a good

Gill's Notes on the Bible

While they behold your chaste conversation,.... Cheerful subjection, strong affection, and inviolable attachment to them, and strict regard to the honour of the marriage state, and to the preserving of the bed undefiled with lusts and adulteries:

coupled with fear; with reverence of their husbands, giving them due honour, and showing all proper respect; or with the fear of God, which being before their eyes, and upon their hearts, engages them to such an agreeable conversation.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

While they behold your chaste conversation - Your pure conduct. The word chaste here (ἁγνὴν 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 and temper which would mar the beauty of her piety, and prevent any happy influence on the mind of her husband,

Coupled with fear - The word fear, in this place, may refer either to the fear of God, or to a proper respect and reverence for their husbands, Ephesians 5:33. The trait of character which is referred to is that of proper respect and reverence in all the relations which she sustained, as opposed to a trifling and frivolous mind. Leighton suggests that the word fear here relates particularly to the other duty enjoined - that of chaste conversation - “fearing the least stain of chastity, or the very appearance of anything not suiting with it. 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.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Peter 3:2. Chaste conversation - with fear. — While they see that ye join modesty, chastity, and the purest manners, to the fear of God. Or perhaps fear, φοβος, is taken, as in Ephesians 5:33, for the reverence due to the husband.