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


In Context

2 beholding your chaste behaviour coupled with fear.

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

4 but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

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

6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

7 Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honour unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:5For after this manner heretofore the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection 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 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: