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Likewise, wives, be submitted to your own husbands so that—even if some do not obey the message—by the wives’ conduct, without a word they may be won over as they observe your pure, reverent conduct. [a] Don’t let your beauty[b] be external—braiding the hair and wearing gold jewelry or fine clothes.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 3:3 cf. 1 Pet. 1:17; 2:17-18.
  2. 1 Peter 3:3 Lit. adornment.

Wives, in the same way submit yourselves(A) to your own husbands(B) so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over(C) without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes.(D)

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