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<a href="../ephesians/5.htm#22">Ephesians 5:22-33</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>seeing your pure behavior in fear. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Let your beauty come not from the outward adorning of braiding your hair, and of wearing gold ornaments or of putting on fine clothing, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>but from the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God’s sight. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For this is how in the past the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are if you do well and are not put in fear by any terror. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered. </p> <p class="hdg">Turn from Evil</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>not rendering evil for evil or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.” </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good? </p> <a name="14" id="14"></a><p class="hdg">Suffering for Righteousness<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../romans/6.htm#15">Romans 6:15-23</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. 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="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing what is right than for doing evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>in whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>who before were disobedient when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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