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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;</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">when they observe your chaste conduct <i>accompanied</i> by 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">While they behold your chaste conversation <i>coupled</i> with fear.</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">Do not let your adornment be <i>merely</i> outward—arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on <i>fine</i> 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">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;</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">rather <i>let it be</i> the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible <i>beauty</i> of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.<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 <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.</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 in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to 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 after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto 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">as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror.<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">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.</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">Husbands, likewise, dwell with <i>them</i> with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as <i>being</i> heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be 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, 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.</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, all <i>of you be</i> of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, <i>be</i> tenderhearted, <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, <i>be ye</i> all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, <i>be</i> pitiful, <i>be</i> courteous:</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 returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may 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">Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit 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 who would love life And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit.<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 he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:</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 turn away from evil and do good; Let him seek peace and pursue 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 eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue 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> on the righteous, And His ears <i>are open</i> to their prayers; But the face of the LORD <i>is</i> against those who 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 <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.</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 who will harm you if you become followers of what 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">And who <i>is</i> he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which 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 even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, <i>you are</i> blessed. “And do not be afraid of their threats, nor 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 and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy <i>are ye</i>: and be not afraid of their terror, neither 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 always <i>be</i> ready to <i>give</i> a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for 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 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:</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 when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.<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; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.</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 it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.<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 <i>it is</i> better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.</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 suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive 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 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:</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 whom also He went and preached to 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">By which also he went and preached unto 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">who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while <i>the</i> ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through 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">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.</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">There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through 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">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:</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 has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; 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