1 Peter 3:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² beholding your chaste behaviour coupled with fear.

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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

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Ephesians 6:5

Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

Philippians 1:27

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;

Philippians 3:20

For our citizenship is in heaven; from whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Colossians 3:22

Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

1 Peter 1:15

but like as he which called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living;

1 Peter 2:12

having your behaviour seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:1

In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behaviour of their wives;

1 Peter 3:3

Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;

2 Peter 3:11

Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness,