1 Peter 3:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

1 Peter 3:2 —

Old words in this verse

conversation: — way of life, conduct.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:12
Having your conversation 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.
1 Peter 1:15
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
Philippians 1:27
Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
2 Peter 3:11
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Topics

Fear Godliness Holiness Honesty Integrity Righteousness Uprightness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

The apostle having treated of the duties of subjects to their sovereigns, and of servants to their masters, proceeds to explain the duty of husbands and wives. I. Lest the Christian matrons should imagine that their conversion to Christ, and their interest in all Christian privileges, exempted them from subjection to their pagan or Jewish husbands, the apostle here tells them, 1. In what the duty…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. behold--on narrowly looking into it, literally, “having closely observed.” chaste--pure, spotless, free from all impurity. fear--reverential, towards your husbands. Scrupulously pure, as opposed to the noisy, ambitious character of worldly women.