1 Peter 3:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² when they see your reverent and chaste behavior.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² When they observe the pure and modest way in which you conduct yourselves, together with your reverence [for your husband; you are to feel for him all that reverence includes: to respect, defer to, revere him–to honor, esteem, appreciate, prize, and, in the human sense, to adore him, that is, to admire, praise, be devoted to, deeply love, and enjoy your husband].

American Standard Version (1901)

² beholding your chaste behavior coupled with fear.

Common English Bible

² After all, they will have observed the reverent and holy manner of your lives.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² as they consider with fear your chaste behavior.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Considering your chaste conversation with fear.

1 Peter 3:2 Cross References

Ephesians 5:33

however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Ephesians 6:5

Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as to Christ;

Philippians 1:27

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you stand firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,

Philippians 3:20

But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Colossians 3:22

Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord.

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

1 Peter 1:15

but as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct;

1 Peter 2:12

Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in case they speak against you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:1

Likewise you wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the word, may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,

1 Peter 3:3

Let not yours be the outward adorning with braiding of hair, decoration of gold, and wearing of fine clothing,

2 Peter 3:11

Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,