1 Peter 3:5
1 Peter 3:4-6 The Message (MSG)
Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in. The holy women of old were beautiful before God that way, and were good, loyal wives to their husbands. Sarah, for instance, taking care of Abraham, would address him as “my dear husband.” You’ll be true daughters of Sarah if you do the same, unanxious and unintimidated.
1 Peter 3:5 King James Version (KJV)
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands
1 Peter 3:5 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands
1 Peter 3:5 New Century Version (NCV)
In this same way the holy women who lived long ago and followed God made themselves beautiful, yielding to their own husbands.
1 Peter 3:5 New King James Version (NKJV)
For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands
1 Peter 3:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
For in this way in former times the holy women, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands and adapting themselves to them
1 Peter 3:5 New Living Translation (NLT)
This is how the holy women of old made themselves beautiful. They put their trust in God and accepted the authority of their husbands.
1 Peter 3:5 The Passion Translation (TPT)
Holy women of long ago who had set their hopes in God beautified themselves with lives lived in deference to their own husbands’ authority.
1 Peter 3:5 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)
For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands