Beholding (εποπτευσαντες). First aorist active participle of εποπτευω, for which see 2:12. See 2:12 also for αναστροφην manner of …

While they behold your chaste conversation. Your pure conduct. The word chaste here (agnhn) refers to purity of conduct …

While they behold . . .—The same curious word as in 1 Peter 2:12, and the tense, which is poorly represented …

Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any do not obey the word, they also may without the word be won by the con…

The husband will then observe purity of life lived in the “fear” (NIV, “reverence”; GK 5832) of God. Note might be taken here of the mother of Augu…

He proceeds now to another instance of subjection, and instructs wives to be subject to their husbands. And as those who were united to unbelieving…

While they behold your chaste conversation Cheerful subjection, strong affection, and inviolable attachment to them, and …

The wife must fulfill her duty to her own husband, even if he does not obey the word. We see daily how closely evil men watch the ways and lives of…