the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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1 Peter 3:2
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when they observe your pure, reverent lives.
While they beholde your chaste conuersation coupled with feare:
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
when they see your respectful and pure conduct.
as they observe your pure and respectful behavior.
Your husbands will see the pure lives you live with your respect for God.
as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior.
when they see your pure and reverent demeanor.
because he will see how you honor God and live a pure life.
as they see your respectful and pure behavior.
having witnessed your pure conversation [carried out] in fear;
Your husbands will see the pure lives that you live with respect for God.
While they beholde your pure conuersation, which is with feare.
When they see that you conduct yourselves with respect and modesty.
because they will see how pure and reverent your conduct is.
when they see your respectful, pure conduct.
observing your pure behavior in fear.
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].
beholding your chaste behavior coupled with fear.
When they see your holy behaviour in the fear of God.
seeing your pure behavior in fear.
when they see your pure and reverent lives.1 Peter 2:12;">[xr]
while they see that with reverence and with chastity you conduct yourselves.
when they see, that ye conduct yourselves with reverence and chastity.
Whyle they beholde your chaste conuersation coupled with feare.
beholding your chaste behaviour [coupled] with fear.
seeing your pure behavior in fear.
Beholding your chaste conversation joined with fear:
so full of reverence, and so blameless!
And biholde ye in drede youre hooli conuersacioun.
watching your chaste behavior [coupled] with fear.
While they behold your chaste manner of life [coupled] with fear.
when they see your pure and reverent conduct.
when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear.
by observing your pure and reverent lives.
They will see how you love God and how your lives are pure.
when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.
Having been permitted to behold your reverently chaste behaviour, -
Considering your chaste conversation with fear.
when they see your reverent and chaste behavior.
having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,
whan they beholde yor pure conuersacion in feare.
by observing the religious chastity of their manners.
They will see how pure and reverent you are.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
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 (αÌγνηÌν hagneÌn) referâs 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 - âfearing 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.â
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, ÏοβοÏ, is taken, as in Ephesians 5:33, for the reverence due to the husband.
