3:1   In the same way, you wives, submit to your own husbands so that even if any of them disobey the word, you may win them without a word by the behavior of their wives,

3:2  as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior.

3:3   Your adornment must not consist of external behavior merely external--braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses;

3:4  but let it reside in the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which God considers precious in His sight.

3:5  For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, remaining submissive to their own husbands;

3:6  just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you right without having any fear.

3:7   You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since God created her a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not suffer hindrance.

3:8  To sum up, all of you behave harmoniously, sympathetically, brotherly, kindheartedly, and humbly in spirit;

3:9   not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for God called you for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.

3:10   For, " THE ONE WHO DESIRES LIFE, TO LOVE AND SEE GOOD DAYS, MUST KEEP HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL AND HIS LIPS FROM SPEAKING DECEIT.

3:11  " HE MUST TURN AWAY FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD; HE MUST SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT.

3:12  " FOR THE LORD DIRECTS HIS EYES TOWARD THE RIGHTEOUS, AND HIS EARS ATTEND TO THEIR PRAYER, BUT THE FACE OF THE LORD SHUNS THOSE WHO DO EVIL."

3:13   Who will harm you if you prove zealous for good?

3:14  But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, God blesses you AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT ALLOW THEM TO TROUBLE YOU,

3:15   but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always demonstrate readiness to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that you have, yet with gentleness and reverence;

3:16  and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which people slander you, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will suffer shame.

3:17  You will find it preferable, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing right rather than for doing wrong.

3:18  For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having suffered death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

3:19  in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,

3:20  who once disobeyed, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which God brought a few, namely, eight persons safely through the water.

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3:22   who sits at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after God subjected angels and authorities and powers to Him.