1 Peter 3:4

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But the hidden man of the heart in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit, which is rich in the sight of God.

Cross References

Colossians 3:12

Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy, and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:

1 Samuel 16:7

And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him. Nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.

Romans 2:29

But he is a Jew, that is one inwardly; and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Matthew 11:29

Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: and you shall find rest to your souls.

Titus 3:2

To speak evil of no man, not to be litigious, but gentle: shewing all mildness towards all men.

Matthew 23:26

Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean.

Romans 7:22

For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man:

2 Corinthians 4:16

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man is corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

And that you use your endeavour to be quiet, and that you do your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without; and that you want nothing of any man's.

Ephesians 4:2

With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity.

1 Peter 3:15

But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you.

1 Timothy 2:2

For kings, and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.

Luke 11:40

Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without, make also that which is within?

Isaiah 61:1

THE spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me. He hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives and deliverance to them that are shut up:

Isaiah 57:15

For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity. And his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Psalm 25:9

Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men:

James 1:21

Wherefore casting away all uncleanness, and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

2 Timothy 2:25

With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: if peradventure God may give them repentance to know the truth,

2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now we charge them that are such, and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.

Matthew 5:5

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Isaiah 29:19

And the meek shall increase their joy in the Lord: and the poor men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 149:4

For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.

Romans 6:6

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.

Luke 16:15

And he said to them: You are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts; for that which is high to men, is an abomination before God.

Psalm 51:6

Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.

1 Peter 1:23

Being born again not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.

Colossians 3:3

For you are dead; and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Galatians 5:23

Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law.

Psalm 131:2

How he swore to the Lord, he vowed a vow to the God of Jacob:

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I Paul myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ, who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent, am bold toward you.

Matthew 21:5

Tell ye the daughter of Sion: Behold thy king cometh to thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of her that is used to the yoke.

Isaiah 11:4

But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity for the meek of the earth. And he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth: and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

Jeremiah 51:59

The word that Jeremias the prophet commanded Saraias the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, when he went with king Sedecias to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Now Saraias was chief over the prophecy.

Romans 1:23

And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts, and of creeping things.