1 Peter 3:2

While they behold (see note on 1 Peter 2:12 , where the same verb occurs) your chaste conversation coupled with fear ; literally, your chaste behavior, in fear. Bengel and others understand the fear of God. Certainly the holy fear of God is the sphere in which true Christians must always live. But the close connection with the word "chaste ( τὴν ἐν φόβῳ ἁγνὴν ἀναστροφὴν ὑμῶν ), and the parallel passage, Ephesians 5:33 (in the Greek), make it probable that the fear here inculcated is reverence for the husband—an anxious avoidance of anything that might even seem to interfere with his conjugal rights and authority.