What does 1 Peter 3 say about a wife's outward adornment?
1 Peter 3 instructs wives not to rely on outward adornment such as braiding hair, wearing gold, or putting on apparel. Instead, the adorning should be the hidden person of the heart, a meek and quiet spirit, which is of great price in God's sight.
Les explains that 1 Peter 3 tells believing wives not to win an unbelieving husband by preaching, nagging, or dragging him to church. Rather than outward adornment—braiding the hair, wearing gold, or putting on apparel—her adorning is to be the hidden man of the heart, the incorruptible born-again spirit, with a meek and quiet spirit, which God values greatly. She lives an exemplary Christian life before him.
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
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