when they observe your pure, reverent lives.(A) Your beauty should not consist of outward things like elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold ornaments[a] or fine clothes.(B) Instead, it should consist of what is inside[b] the heart(C) with the imperishable quality of a gentle(D) and quiet(E) spirit, which is very valuable in God’s eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 3:3 Lit and of putting around of gold items
  2. 1 Peter 3:4 Lit Instead, the hidden man of

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