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| In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any {of them} are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, | |
| as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior. | |
| Your adornment must not be {merely} external--braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses; | |
| but {let it be} the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God. | |
| For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands; | |
| just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear. | |
| You husbands in the same way, live with {your wives} in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered. | |
| To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit; | |
| not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing. | |
| For, "THE ONE WHO DESIRES LIFE, TO LOVE AND SEE GOOD DAYS, MUST KEEP HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL AND HIS LIPS FROM SPEAKING DECEIT. | |
| "HE MUST TURN AWAY FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD; HE MUST SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT. | |
| "FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE TOWARD THE RIGHTEOUS, AND HIS EARS ATTEND TO THEIR PRAYER, BUT THE FACE OF THE LORD IS AGAINST THOSE WHO DO EVIL." | |
| Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good? | |
| But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED, | |
| but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always {being} ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence; | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| For Christ also died for sins once for all, {the} just for {the} unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; | |
| in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits {now} in prison, | |
| 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 {the} water. | |
| Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you--not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, | |
| who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him. |
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