1 Kefa 3
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1Nashim (wives), submit similarly to your own ba'alim (husbands), that even if any anashim lack mishma'at (obedience) to the Dvar Hashem, they may be won without the Dvar through the hitnahagut (conduct) of their nashim,
2When they see your yirat Shomayim and your midas chasidus (quality of piety).
3Do not let your adornment be outward, with coiffures and with wearing gold or fine apparel,
4But let your adornment be nistar (hidden), adornment shebalev (inwardly) by the imperishable#3:4 1:4 adorning of the quiet ruach anavah (humble spirit), which is before Hashem of great worth.
5For so formerly also the nashim hakedoshot (holy women) whose tikvah was in Hashem were adorning themselves, submitting themselves to their own ba'alim.
6Just so, Sarah submitted in mishma'at (obedience) to Avraham Avinu, calling him ADONI.#3:6 Gn 18:12 You nashim became Sarahʼs banot (daughters), if you act as nashei tzedek#3:6 2:15 and you fear no intimidation.#3:6 Prov 3:25
7Likewise, Ba'alim (Husbands), dwell with them according to the da'as of the isha as a k'li rach (weaker vessel), showing them kavod as also being yoreshim together#3:7 3:9 of the mattanah (gift) of the Chen v'Chesed HaChayyim, so that your tefillos will not be hindered.#3:7 3:12; 4:7
8Now, to say over, all of you be an agudah (bound together union) in your thinking, have achdus, be sympathetic, having ahavah (agape) for the Achim b'Moshiach,#3:8 Ps 133:1 being tender-hearted men of mercy v'shiflei ruach (and lowly of spirit),
9Not rendering ra'ah for ra'ah or lashon hora for lashon hora, but, fahkert (on the contrary), rendering a bracha (blessing), because to this tachlis (purpose) you were given your kri'ah (calling), that you may inherit a bracha (blessing).
10HAISH HECHAFETZ CHAYYIM OHEV YAMIM LIROT TOV (For the one wanting to love life and to see good days) NETZOR L'SHONECHA MERAH U'SFATECHA MIDABER MIRMAH (Let him stop his tongue from speaking lashon hora and his lips from speaking remiyah).#3:10 guile, fraud, deceit
11“Let him turn away from resha and let him do that which is good, let him seek shalom and pursue it;”
12EINEI ADONOI EL TZADDIKIM V'AZNAV EL SHAV'ATAM (Because the tzaddikim are before the eyes of Hashem and His ears are open to their tefillos). P'NEI ADONOI B'OSEI RAH L'HACHRIT ME'ARETZ ZICHRAM (But the face of the L-rd is against the ones doing evil to cut off their memory from the earth).#3:10-12 Ps 34:13-16
13And who is the one harming you if you have kana'ut (zeal) for HaTov (The Good)?
14But if indeed you should suffer tzoros because of Tzidkat Hashem, you are blessed and happy. But do not fear their pachad (terror), neither be troubled.
15But reverence in your levavot Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach as Adoneinu, prepared always for a hitstaddekut (an apologetic defense) to everyone coming to you with a she'elah (question), ready with a word concerning the tikvah in you,
16But with anavah (meekness) and yirat Shomayim, having a clear matzpun (conscience),#3:16 3:21 so that, when you are maligned by lashon hora, your abusers may be humiliated by your midas chasidus in Moshiach.
17For im yirtzeh Hashem (if the L-rd wills), it is better to suffer tzoros for doing mitzvot than for doing ra'ah.
18Because, indeed, Moshiach suffered once on behalf of chatta'im (sins), a Tzaddik (righteous one) on behalf of the chote'im (unrighteous ones, sinners), that he might bring you to Hashem he, having been in the basar#3:18 Ps 16:9-10 put to death, yet, in the Ruach Hakodesh, having been made alive;#3:18 See 1K 4:6; Isa 53:8
19In which also to the ruchot (spirits) now in mishmar (prison), having gone, Moshiach made the hachrazah (proclamation, kerygma)
20To ones without mishma'at (obedience) back then when the savlanut (patience) of Hashem was waiting, in the days of Noach, while the Teva (Ark) was being prepared, in which a few, that is shemoneh nefashot (eight souls), were delivered through that mabbulʼs mikveh mayim;
21And Moshiachʼs tevilah in the mikveh mayim, which this mabbul prefigures, now delivers you, not by means of the removal of filth from the basar, but through the hitchaiy'vut (pledge) of a clean matzpun toward Hashem, through the Techiyas HaMoshiach Yehoshua,
22Who is at the right hand of Hashem, having gone into Shomayim, with malachim and rashuyot (authorities) and gevurot under his feet.
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