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1 Peter 3

Wives should be subject to their husbands and demonstrate their faith through their behavior, rather than outward adornments. Husbands should live with their wives in understanding and honor them as co-heirs of eternal life. Believers should strive to be of one mind, compassionate, and loving, repaying evil with blessings. Those who suffer for doing good are blessed, and they should be prepared to give an explanation for their hope in Christ with meekness and fear.

1Similarly also, wives should be subject to their husbands, so that, even if some do not believe the Word, they may benefit without the Word, through the behavior of these wives2as they consider with fear your chaste behavior3For you, there should be no unnecessary adornment of the hair, or surrounding with gold, or the wearing of ornate clothing4Instead, you should be a hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit, rich in the sight of God5For in this way, in past times also, holy women adorned themselves, hoping in God, being subject to their own husbands6For so Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You are her daughters, well-behaved and unafraid of any disturbance7Similarly, you husbands should live with them in accord with knowledge, bestowing honor on the female as the weaker vessel and as co-heirs of the life of grace, so that your prayers may not be hindered8And finally, may you all be of one mind: compassionate, loving brotherhood, merciful, meek, humble9not repaying evil with evil, nor slander with slander, but, to the contrary, repaying with blessings. For to this you have been called, so that you may possess the inheritance of a blessing10For whoever wants to love life and to see good days should restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips, so that they utter no deceit11Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it12For the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears are with their prayers, but the countenance of the Lord is upon those who do evil13And who is it who can harm you, if you are zealous in what is good14And yet, even when you suffer something for the sake of justice, you are blessed. So then, do not be afraid with their fear, and do not be disturbed15But sanctify Christ the Lord in your hearts, being always ready to give an explanation to all who ask you the reason for that hope which is in you16But do so with meekness and fear, having a good conscience, so that, in whatever matter they may slander you, they shall be confounded, since they falsely accuse your good behavior in Christ17For it is better to suffer for doing good, if it is the will of God, than for doing evil18For Christ also died once for our sins, the Just One on behalf of the unjust, so that he might offer us to God, having died, certainly, in the flesh, but having been enlivened by the Spirit19And in the Spirit, he preached to those who were in prison, going to those soul20who had been unbelieving in past times, while they waited for the patience of God, as in the days of Noah, when the ark was being built. In that ark, a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water21And now you also are saved, in a similar manner, by baptism, not by the testimony of sordid flesh, but by the examination of a good conscience in God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ22He is at the right hand of God, devouring death, so that we may be made heirs to eternal life. And since he has journeyed to heaven, the Angels and powers and virtues are subject to him
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