Your beauty should not consist of outward things like elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold ornaments[a] or fine clothes.(A) Instead, it should consist of what is inside[b] the heart(B) with the imperishable quality of a gentle(C) and quiet(D) spirit, which is very valuable in God’s eyes. For in the past, the holy(E) women who put their hope(F) in God also beautified themselves in this way, submitting to their own husbands,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 3:3 Lit and of putting around of gold items
  2. 1 Peter 3:4 Lit Instead, the hidden man of

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