Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
when they see your pure and reverent lives.
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.
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].
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 In a similar way, you wives must submit yourselves to your husbands so that, even if some of them refuse to obey the word, they may be won over without a word through your conduct as wives 2 when they see your pure and reverent lives. 3 Your beauty should not be an external one, consisting of braided hair or the wearing of gold ornaments and dresses.
Phrases
Cross References
Ephesians 5:33
But each individual man among you must love his wife as he loves himself; and may the wife fear her husband.
Ephesians 6:5
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear, trembling, and sincerity, as when you obey the Messiah.
Philippians 1:27
The only thing that matters is that you continue to live as good citizens in a manner worthy of the gospel of the Messiah. Then, whether I come to see you or whether I stay away, I may hear all about you that you are standing firm in one spirit, struggling with one mind for the faith of the gospel,
Philippians 3:20
Our citizenship, however, is in heaven, and it is from there that we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus, the Messiah.
Colossians 3:22
Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only while being watched in order to please them, but with a sincere heart, fearing the Lord.
1 Timothy 4:12
Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but be an example for other believers in your speech, behavior, love, faithfulness, and purity.
1 Peter 1:15
Instead, be holy in every aspect of your life, just as the one who called you is holy.
1 Peter 2:12
Continue to live such upright lives among the gentiles that, when they slander you as practicers of evil, they may see your good actions and glorify God when he visits them.
1 Peter 3:5-6
After all, this is how holy women who set their hope on God used to make themselves beautiful in the past. They submitted themselves to their husbands,
1 Peter 3:15-16
Instead, exalt the Messiah" as Lord in your lives. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you to explain the hope you have.
2 Peter 3:11
Since everything will be destroyed in this way, think of the kind of holy and godly people you ought to be