1 Peter 3

Wives and Husbands

1 In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the word, they may be won over without a word by the conduct of their wives, 2 when they**Here "when" is supplied as a component of the participle ("see") which is understood as temporal see your respectful, pure conduct. 3 Let your*Literally "of whom," referring to the wives adornment not be the external kind, braiding hair and putting on gold jewelry or putting on fine clothing, 4 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. 5 For in the same way formerly the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves by**Here "by" is supplied as a component of the participle ("being subject") which is understood as means being subject to their own husbands, 6 like Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you have become when you**Here "when" is supplied as a component of the participle ("do good") which is understood as temporal do good and are not frightened with respect to any terror.