| 1 In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your won
husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be
gained by the behavior of their wives; 2 beholding your chaste behavior
coupled with fear. 3 Whose adorning let it not be the
outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of
putting on apparel; 4 but let it be the hidden man of the heart,
in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in
the sight of God of great price. 5 For after this manner aforetime the
holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to
their own husbands: 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose
children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
7 Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with your wives according to
knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being
also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not
hindered. 8 Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving
as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded: 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 the Lord are upon the righteous,
And his ears unto their supplication:
But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil.
13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is
good? 14 But even if ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed
are ye: and fear not their fear, neither be troubled; 15 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: 16 having a good conscience; that,
wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good
manner of life in Christ. 17 For it is better, if the will of God should
so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing. 18 Because
Christ also suffered for sins once, 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; 19 in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in
prison, 20 that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God
waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that
is, eight souls, were saved through water: 21 which also after a true
likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the
filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God,
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ; 22 who is one the right hand of
God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made
subject unto him.
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