Let your[a] 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. For in the same way formerly the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves by[b] being subject to their own husbands,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 3:3 Literally “of whom,” referring to the wives
  2. 1 Peter 3:5 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“being subject”) which is understood as means