Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Having been permitted to behold your reverently chaste behaviour, -
New American Standard Bible
as they observe your chaste and
King James Version
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Holman Bible
when they observe your pure, reverent lives.
International Standard Version
when they see your pure and reverent lives.
A Conservative Version
observing, in fear, your pure behavior.
American Standard Version
beholding your chaste behavior coupled with fear.
Amplified
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].
An Understandable Version
be won by observing your godly and respectful behavior.
Anderson New Testament
by observing your blameless and reverential conduct.
Bible in Basic English
When they see your holy behaviour in the fear of God.
Common New Testament
when they see your chaste and respectful behavior.
Daniel Mace New Testament
by observing the religious chastity of their manners.
Darby Translation
having witnessed your pure conversation carried out in fear;
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
(when they behold you chaste behavior, joined with reverence:)
Godbey New Testament
beholding your chaste deportment which is with reverence:
Goodspeed New Testament
when they see how chaste and submissive you are.
John Wesley New Testament
Beholding your chaste conversation joined with fear:
Julia Smith Translation
Having beheld in fear your pure turning back.
King James 2000
While they behold your chaste behavior coupled with fear.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[when they] see your respectful, pure conduct.
Modern King James verseion
having witnessed your chaste behavior in the fear of God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
while they behold your pure conversation coupled with fear.
Moffatt New Testament
when they see how chaste and reverent you are.
Montgomery New Testament
when they see how pure and reverent you are.
NET Bible
when they see your pure and reverent conduct.
New Heart English Bible
seeing your pure behavior in fear.
Noyes New Testament
when they behold your chaste behavior coupled with fear.
Sawyer New Testament
seeing your pure mode of life in the fear [of God].
Thomas Haweis New Testament
being eye-witnesses of your chaste behaviour with timidity.
Twentieth Century New Testament
as they watch your submissive and blameless conduct.
Webster
While they behold your chaste manner of life coupled with fear.
Weymouth New Testament
so full of reverence, and so blameless!
Williams New Testament
when they see how chaste and respectful you are.
World English Bible
seeing your pure behavior in fear.
Worrell New Testament
having beheld your chaste conduct mingled with fear:
Worsley New Testament
beholding your chaste conversation in the fear of God.
Youngs Literal Translation
having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,
Themes
Christian conduct » Fulfilling domestic duties
Marriage » The duties of a wife
Wives » Good » Duty of, to unbelieving husbands
Interlinear
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Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 Peter 3:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Wives And Husbands
1 In like manner, ye wives, - submitting yourselves unto your own husbands; in order that, if any are not yielding unto the word, through their wives behaviour, they may, without the word, be won, 2 Having been permitted to behold your reverently chaste behaviour, - 3 Whose adorning, let it be - not the outward, of plaiting the hair and wearing golden ornaments, or putting on of apparel,
Phrases
Cross References
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless, ye also, do ye, individually, each man be so loving, his own wife, as himself, and, the wife, see that she reverence her husband.
Ephesians 6:5
Ye servants, be obedient unto them who, after the flesh, are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto the Christ;
Philippians 1:27
Only, in a manner worthy of the glad-message of the Christ, be using your citizenship; in order that - whether coming and seeing you, or being absent, I may hear of the things which concern you - that ye are standing fast in one spirit, with one soul, joining for the combat along with the faith of the glad-message;
Philippians 3:20
For, our citizenship, in the heavens, hath its rise; wherefore, a Saviour also, do we ardently await, - The Lord Jesus Christ, -
Colossians 3:22
Ye servants! be obedient, in all things, unto them who, according to the flesh, are your masters, - not with eye-service, as man-pleasers, but with singleness of heart, revering the Lord, -
1 Timothy 4:12
Let, no one, despise, thy youth, but, an ensample, become thou of the faithful, - in discourse, in behaviour, in love, in faith, in chastity.
1 Peter 1:15
But, according as he that hath called you is holy, do, ye yourselves, also become, holy in all manner of behaviour, -
1 Peter 2:12
Having, your behaviour among the nations, honourable, - in order that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may, owing to the honourable works they are permitted to behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
1 Peter 3:5-6
For, so, at one time, the holy women also, who directed their hope towards God, used to adorn themselves, being in submission unto their own husbands:
1 Peter 3:15-16
But, the Lord Christ, hallow ye in your hearts, ready always for a defence, unto every one that is asking you a reason concerning, the hope within you, - nevertheless, with meekness and reverence:
2 Peter 3:11
Seeing that all these things are thus to be dissolved, what manner of persons, ought yeall the while to be, in holy ways of behaviour and acts of godliness, -