1 Peter 3:2 (KJV)
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
The passage begins “Likewise, ye wives.” It sounds pointed and if not accusative, at least isolated. But we must not take it so because this context ends, “Likewise ye husbands.” And encourages them that they are “heirs together of the grace of life.”
With that in mind I focus on the coupling of the chaste conversation and fear.
The word conversation is an easy one - behavior.
Chaste is “reverent, pure, clean.” Thayer’s dictionary gives as the primary definition, “exciting reverence.” In the context of our passage, it’s a behavior that motivates and leads others towards the same reverence for the Lord. So many these days want to water down the concept of fear but I don’t believe that’s healthy. I believe fear to be exactly what it sounds like, terror. When I was an ironworker I was afraid of falling. It did not prevent me from doing my job, but it did prevent me from falling. Fear is not a bad thing as long as it informs and does not cripple our behavior.
The sum of the equation is a chaste conversation, coupled with fear results in behavior that tends to the saving of souls.
Such an equation is fitting but for the wives and the husbands.
2 Corinthians 5:11 (KJV)
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
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Chaste Conversation Coupled with Fear: The Kind of Christian Behavior That Persuades Men Toward God
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