For this is how in the past the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Peter 3:5 in context
1 Peter 3:2–8
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seeing your pure behavior in fear.
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Let your beauty come not from the outward adorning of braiding your hair, and of wearing gold ornaments or of putting on fine clothing,
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but from the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God’s sight.
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For this is how in the past the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.
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So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are if you do well and are not put in fear by any terror.
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You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
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Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
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