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<span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>For Christ also died for sins once for all, <i>the</i> just for <i>the</i> unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits <i>now</i> in prison, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through <i>the</i> water. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Corresponding to that, baptism now saves younot the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good consciencethrough the resurrection of Jesus Christ, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_peter/3.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_peter/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/1_peter/3.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />but sanctify the Lord the Christ in your hearts, and be always prepared to give an answer to every one that asks you to give an account of the hope that is in you, but with meekness and fear;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_peter/3.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_peter/3.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_peter/3.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />but in your hearts consecrate Christ as Lord, being always ready to make your defence to any one who asks from you a reason for the hope which you cherish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_peter/3.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_peter/3.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And be ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/all_saints_day_and_other_sermons/sermon_xix_good_days.htm">Good Days</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Eversley, 1867. Westminster, Sept. 27, 1872. 1 Peter iii. 8-12. "Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 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: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/all_saints_day_and_other_sermons/sermon_xix_good_days.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Kingsley—</span><span class="citation2">All Saints' Day and Other Sermons</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_iii/fifth_sunday_after_trinity_exhortation.htm">Fifth Sunday after Trinity Exhortation to the Fruits of Faith. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Text: 1 Peter 3, 8-15. 8 Finally, be ye all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tender-hearted, humble-minded: 9 not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 10 For, He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile: 11 And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and pursue it. 12 For the eyes of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_iii/fifth_sunday_after_trinity_exhortation.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Martin Luther—</span><span class="citation2">Epistle Sermons, Vol. III</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/hallowing_christ.htm">Hallowing Christ</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts.'--1 Peter iii. 14, 15. These words are a quotation from the prophet Isaiah, with some very significant variations. As originally spoken, they come from a period of the prophet's life when he was surrounded by conspirators against him, eager to destroy, and when he had been giving utterance to threatening prophecies as to the coming up of the King of Assyria, and the voice of God encouraged him and his <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/hallowing_christ.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/april_the_ninteenth_union_in.htm">April the Ninteenth Union in Harmony</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Be ye all of one mind." --1 PETER iii. 8-17. But this is not unison: it is harmony. When an orchestra produces some great musical masterpiece, the instruments are all of one mind, but each makes its own individual contribution. There is variety with concordance: each one serves every other, and the result is glorious harmony. "By love serve one another." It is love that converts membership into fraternity: it is love that binds sons and daughters into a family. Look at a field of wild-flowers. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/april_the_ninteenth_union_in.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Jowett—</span><span class="citation2">My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_9_mothers_daughters_and.htm">Mothers, Daughters, and Wives in Israel</a><br></span><span class="snippet">In order accurately to understand the position of woman in Israel, it is only necessary carefully to peruse the New Testament. The picture of social life there presented gives a full view of the place which she held in private and in public life. Here we do not find that separation, so common among Orientals at all times, but a woman mingles freely with others both at home and abroad. So far from suffering under social inferiority, she takes influential and often leading part in all movements, specially <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_9_mothers_daughters_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">Sketches of Jewish Social Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_great_controversy/chapter_27_modern_revivals.htm">Modern Revivals</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Wherever the word of God has been faithfully preached, results have followed that attested its divine origin. The Spirit of God accompanied the message of His servants, and the word was with power. Sinners felt their consciences quickened. The "light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world" illumined the secret chambers of their souls, and the hidden things of darkness were made manifest. Deep conviction took hold upon their minds and hearts. They were convinced of sin and of righteousness <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_great_controversy/chapter_27_modern_revivals.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Great Controversy</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edwards/the_expositors_bible_the_epistle_to_the_hebrews/chapter_xi_the_faith_of.htm">The Faith of Abraham. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God. By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past age, since she <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edwards/the_expositors_bible_the_epistle_to_the_hebrews/chapter_xi_the_faith_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Charles Edwards—</span><span class="citation2">The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/the_power_of_the_holy.htm">The Power of the Holy Ghost</a><br></span><span class="snippet">We shall look at the power of the Holy Ghost in three ways this morning. First, the outward and visible displays of it; second, the inward and spiritual manifestations of it; and third, the future and expected works thereof. The power of the Spirit will thus, I trust, be made clearly present to your souls. I. First, then, we are to view the power of the Spirit in the OUTWARD AND VISIBLE DISPLAYS OF IT. The power of the Sprit has not been dormant; it has exerted itself. Much has been done by the Spirit <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/the_power_of_the_holy.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 1: 1855</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_desire_of_ages/chapter_27_thou_canst_make.htm">"Thou Canst Make Me Clean"</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Of all diseases known in the East the leprosy was most dreaded. Its incurable and contagious character, and its horrible effect upon its victims, filled the bravest with fear. Among the Jews it was regarded as a judgment on account of sin, and hence was called "the stroke," "the finger of God." Deep-rooted, ineradicable, deadly, it was looked upon as a symbol of sin. By the ritual law, the leper was pronounced unclean. Like one already dead, he was shut out from the habitations of men. Whatever he <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_desire_of_ages/chapter_27_thou_canst_make.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Desire of Ages</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/macneil/the_spirit-filled_life/chapter_xii_consecration_what_is.htm">Consecration: what is It?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The second step that must needs be taken by those of us who have been living without the Fullness, before it can be obtained, is Consecration, a word that is very common and popular; much more common and popular, it is feared, than the thing itself. In order to be filled with the Holy Ghost one must first be "cleansed," and then one must be "consecrated". Consecration follows cleansing, and not vice versa. Intelligent apprehension of what consecration is, and of what it involves, is necessary to <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/macneil/the_spirit-filled_life/chapter_xii_consecration_what_is.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John MacNeil—</span><span class="citation2">The Spirit-Filled Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/xxiii_the_holy_spirit_in.htm">The Holy Spirit in the Glorified Christ. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead."--Rom. i. 4. From the foregoing studies it appears that the Holy Spirit performed a work in the human nature of Christ as He descended the several steps of His humiliation to the death of the cross. The question now arises, whether He had also a work in the several steps of Christ's exaltation to the excellent glory, i.e., in His resurrection, ascension, royal dignity, and second coming. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/xxiii_the_holy_spirit_in.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Abraham Kuyper—</span><span class="citation2">The Work of the Holy Spirit</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_peter/3-15.htm">1 Peter 3:15 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_peter/3-15.htm">1 Peter 3:15 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_peter/3-15.htm">1 Peter 3:15 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_peter/3-15.htm">1 Peter 3:15 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_peter/3-15.htm">1 Peter 3:15 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_peter/3-15.htm">1 Peter 3:15 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/1_peter/3-15.htm">1 Peter 3:15 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_peter/3-14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Peter 3:14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Peter 3:14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_peter/3-16.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Peter 3:16"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Peter 3:16" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/1_peter/3-15.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>