1 Peter 3:3 (WEB)
Let your beauty come not from the outward adorning of braiding your hair, and of wearing gold ornaments or of putting on fine clothing,
Catechism · 1
“It is a community of faith, hope, and charity; it assumes singular importance in the Church, as is evident in the New Testament.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Eph 5:21b: 4; Col 3:18-21; 1 Pet 3:1-7.
Fathers and councils · 8
Jerome
“When he says “likewise,” he challenges the husbands to imitate their wives, because he has already given them commandment: “beholding your chaste conversation coupled with fear.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 2, 3.
Read the whole comment“What can be fairer than a soul which is called the daughter of God, and which seeks for herself no outward adorning.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Pet. iii. 3.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Let no one suppose that there is nothing sinful in luxury and rich dress; if pursuit of such things had been blameless, the Lord would not have thus commended John for the coarseness of his raiment, nor would Peter have checked the desire of fine clothes in women as he does, “Not in costly raiment.” [1 Pet 3:3]” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“Touching modesty of dress and ornamentation, indeed, the prescription of Peter likewise is plain, checking as he does with the same mouth, because with the same Spirit, as Paul, the glory of garments, and the pride of gold, and the meretricious elaboration of the hair.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 1–6.
Read the whole comment“Therefore a woman, taking counsel from the apostles’ foresight, will not too elaborately adorn herself, that she may not either be crowned with any exquisite arrangement of her hair.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 9; 1 Pet. iii. 3.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Also Peter consents to these same precepts, and says, “Let there be in the woman not the outward adorning of array, or gold, or apparel, but the adorning of the heart.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 3, 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Husbands in like manner living at peace and in chastity with your wives, both give ye honor as to the weaker and subject vessel, as with co-heirs of grace, and see that your prayers be not hindered.”” — editor's note: 1 Peter iii. 1–7
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Clement of Alexandria
“Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 1–4.
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 14.
Cited together in Gregory the Great on Matthew 11:7–10 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory the Great on Matthew 11:7–10 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory the Great on Matthew 11:7–10 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory the Great on Matthew 11:7–10 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 14.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 14.
Cited together in Catechism §2204.
Cited together in Catechism §2204.
Cited together in Catechism §2204.
Cited together in Catechism §2204.
Cited together in Catechism §2204.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 14 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.