the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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1 Peter 3:2
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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
Cross-References
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
They have venom like the venom of a serpent;Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
They haue poyson [within them] lyke to the poyson of a serpent: they be lyke the deafe adder that stoppeth her eares,
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like the deaf adder he stops his ear,
Their anger is as deadly as the poison of a snake. They shut their ears like a deaf cobra
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
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.