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1 Peter 3:4 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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. "

1 Peter 3:4

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2 seeing your pure behavior in fear.

3 Let your beauty come not from the outward adorning of braiding your hair, and of wearing gold ornaments or of putting on fine clothing,

4 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.

5 For this is how in the past the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.

6 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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