Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she respect her husband.
1 Peter 3:2 - King James 2000 While they behold your chaste behavior coupled with fear. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) beholding your chaste behavior coupled with fear. Common English Bible After all, they will have observed the reverent and holy manner of your lives. Catholic Public Domain Version as they consider with fear your chaste behavior. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Considering your chaste conversation with fear. |
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she respect her husband.
Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
Only let your manner of life be as it becomes the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
For our citizenship is in heaven; from which also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye service, as men pleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
Let no man despise your youth; but be an example of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
But as he who has called you is holy, so be holy in all manner of conduct;
Having your conduct honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conduct of the wives;
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conduct and godliness,