3Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes.


In Context

1 Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives,

2 when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.

3 Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes.

4 Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight.

5 For 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,

1st Peter 3:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3whose adorning let it not be that outward one of tressing of hair, and wearing gold, or putting on apparel;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3whose adorning — let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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