Parallel Verses
Godbey New Testament
beholding your chaste deportment which is with reverence:
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:)
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].
The Emphasized Bible
Having been permitted to behold your reverently chaste behaviour, -
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
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 Peter 3:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Wives And Husbands
1 Likewise, ye wives, be submissive to your own husbands; in order that, if any do not believe the word, they shall be gained through the deportment of their wives, without the word; 2 beholding your chaste deportment which is with reverence: 3 whose beauty, let it not be the external beauty of braiding the hairs, and wearing golds, or putting on of outer garments;
Phrases
Cross References
Ephesians 5:33
Moreover you also each one thus love his own wife with divine love as himself; and that the wife also reverence the husband.
Ephesians 6:5
Ye servants, obey those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in purity of your heart, as unto Christ;
Philippians 1:27
Only live worthily of the gospel of Christ: in order that, whether coming and seeing you or being absent, I hear those things concerning you, that you are standing in one spirit, with one soul contending for the faith of the gospel;
Philippians 3:20
For our citizenship is in the heavens; whence we are indeed looking for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Colossians 3:22
Ye servants, obey your masters according to the flesh in all things; not with eye-service, pleasing men, but of purity of heart, fearing the Lord.
1 Timothy 4:12
Let no one look with contempt upon your youth; but be you an example of the faithful, in word, in deportment, in divine love, in faith, in purity.
1 Peter 1:15
but according to the Holy One who has called you. Be ye also holy in all your deportment;
1 Peter 2:12
having your deportment beautiful among the Gentiles: in order that in whatsoever they calumniate you as evil doers, seeing from your beautiful works, they may glorify God in the day of his visitation.
1 Peter 3:5-6
For in this way in olden times the holy wives, the ones having hope toward God, were indeed accustomed to beautify themselves, submissive to their own husbands:
1 Peter 3:15-16
but sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts: being always ready for an answer to every one asking you a reason for the hope which is in you, but with meekness and fear:
2 Peter 3:11
Then all these things being dissolved, what kind of people does it behoove you to be in holy deportment and godliness,