5For after this manner heretofore the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:


In Context

2 Considering your chaste conversation with fear.

3 Whose adorning let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel:

4 But the hidden man of the heart in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit, which is rich in the sight of God.

5 For after this manner heretofore the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

6 As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, doing well, and not fearing any disturbance.

7 Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel, and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

1 Peter 3:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:5For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:5For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:5For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5For thus also the holy women who have hoped in God heretofore adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:5For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5For after this manner in former times the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:5For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: