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[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. For this is the way the holy women, who put their hope in God, used to beautify themselves long ago—being submitted to their own husbands

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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.