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that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">While they behold your chaste conversation <i>coupled</i> with fear.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">when they see your respectful and pure conduct.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Whose adorning let it not be that outward <i>adorning</i> of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But <i>let it be</i> the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, <i>even the ornament</i> of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with <i>them</i> according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Finally, <i>be ye</i> all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, <i>be</i> pitiful, <i>be</i> courteous:<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For the eyes of the Lord <i>are</i> over the righteous, and his ears <i>are open</i> unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord <i>is</i> against them that do evil.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And who <i>is</i> he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy <i>are ye</i>: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and <i>be</i> ready always to <i>give</i> an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For <i>it is</i> better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The like figure whereunto <i>even</i> baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; 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