1st Peter Chapter 3 verse 2 Holy Bible
beholding your chaste behavior `coupled' with fear.
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When they see your holy behaviour in the fear of God.
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having witnessed your pure conversation [carried out] in fear;
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While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
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seeing your pure behavior in fear.
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having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,
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1st Peter 3 : 2 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - While they behold (see note on 1 Peter 2:12, where the same verb occurs) your chaste conversation coupled with fear; literally, your chaste behavior, in fear. Bengel and others understand the fear of God. Certainly the holy fear of God is the sphere in which true Christians must always live. But the close connection with the word "chaste (τὴν ἐν φόβῳ ἁγνὴν ἀναστροφὴν ὑμῶν), and the parallel passage, Ephesians 5:33 (in the Greek), make it probable that the fear here inculcated is reverence for the husband - an anxious avoidance of anything that might even seem to interfere with his conjugal rights and authority.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) While they behold . . .--The same curious word as in 1Peter 2:12, and the tense, which is ill-represented by "while they behold," sets us at the moment of the triumph of the wife's conduct, literally; having kept, or when they have kept an eye on your chaste conversation. The husband is jealously on the watch to see what his wife does who has embraced these foolish notions; at last he breaks down. Jesus must be the Messiah, or his wife could not have been so chaste! The adjective "chaste" is here to be taken in a large sense; it is the same which enters into the verb translated "purify" in 1Peter 1:22, and it is implied that the "fear" (i.e., of the husband; comp. Note on 1Peter 2:18) has been an incentive to this sweet virtue; "your life so immaculate in fear," or even almost "so timidly pure." Leighton says, "It is a delicate, timorous grace, afraid of the least air, or shadow of anything that hath but a resemblance of wronging it, in carriage or speech, or apparel, as follows in the third and fourth verses."
