when they[a] see your respectful, pure conduct. Let your[b] adornment not be the external kind, braiding hair and putting on gold jewelry or putting on fine clothing, but the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is highly valuable in the sight of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 3:2 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“see”) which is understood as temporal
  2. 1 Peter 3:3 Literally “of whom,” referring to the wives