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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. [c] Instead let it be in the hidden person of the heart, with the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.

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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.
  3. 1 Peter 3:4 cf. 1 Tim. 2:9.