3 Your beauty should not consist of outward things like elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold ornaments(a) or fine clothes.(A) 4 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.

Footnotes:

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

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