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.

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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

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes.(A) Rather, it should be that of your inner self,(B) the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.(C)

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

But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

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