1 Peter 3:1-7 IN the same way you wives are to be submissive to your own husbands, so that if any disbelieve the message they may be won over by the lives of their wives without argument,

Riverside⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ IN the same way you wives are to be submissive to your own husbands, so that if any disbelieve the message they may be won over by the lives of their wives without argument, ² when they look at your pure, reverential behavior. ³ Your adornment must not be of the external kind — braiding the hair and putting on gold and wearing fine dresses; ⁴ but the hidden personality of the heart must wear the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in God's sight most precious. ⁵ For so of old the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves. They were submissive to their own husbands, ⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him Master. You have become her children when you do well and feel no terror. ⁷ In the same way, you husbands must live with your wives wisely, since woman's sex is weaker, but you must give them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.