1 Peter 3
3
Wives and Husbands
1In the same way, wives,#Eph 5:22–33; Col 3:18–19; 1Tm 3:11 submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the word,#1Co 7:16; 1Pt 1:24–25 they may be won over#1Co 9:19–22; Php 3:8 without a word by the way their wives live#2Pt 3:11 2when they observe your pure, reverent lives.#Ti 2:5 3Don’t let your beauty consist of outward things like elaborate hairstyles and wearing gold jewelry or fine clothes,#Is 3:18–24; 1Tm 2:9 4but rather what is inside the heart#3:4 Or rather, the hidden person of the heart#Rm 2:29; 7:22 — the imperishable quality of a gentle#Mt 5:5 and quiet#1Tm 2:2 spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 5For in the past, the holy#Ps 20:6; 1Co 7:14 women who put their hope#1Tm 5:5; 1Pt 1:3 in God also adorned themselves in this way, submitting to their own husbands, 6just as Sarah#Gn 17:15–21; 18:6–15; Heb 11:11 obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You have become her children when you do what is good and do not fear any intimidation.#Pr 3:25
7Husbands,#Mt 1:19; 1Co 14:35; Eph 5:22–28; Col 3:18–19; Ti 2:4–5 in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with a weaker partner,#1Th 4:4 showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
Do No Evil
8Finally, all of you be like-minded and sympathetic, love one another,#Heb 13:1 and be compassionate#Eph 4:32 and humble,#3:8 Other mss read courteous 9not paying back evil for evil#Rm 12:17 or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing,#Lk 6:28; Rm 12:14; 1Co 4:12 since you were called for this, so that you may inherit a blessing.
10For the#Ps 34:12–16 one who wants to love life
and to see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil #
Jms 1:26
and his lips from speaking deceit, #
Rm 3:13; Jms 3:5–8
11 and let him turn away #
Ps 37:27
from evil
and do what is good.
Let him seek peace #
Lk 12:51; 2Tm 1:2; Heb 12:14; 3Jn 14 and pursue it,
12 because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
and his ears are open to their prayer.
But the face of the Lord is against
those who do what is evil. #
Ps 34:12–16
Undeserved Suffering
13Who then will harm you if you are devoted to what is good? 14But even if you should suffer for righteousness,#Mt 6:33; Rm 1:17; 2Pt 1:1 you are blessed. Do not fear them#3:14 Or Do not fear what they fear#Jn 6:20; 7:13 or be intimidated,#3:14Is 8:12#Is 8:12–13 15but in your hearts regard#3:15 Or sanctify, or set apart Christ#3:15 Other mss read set God the Lord as holy, ready at any time to give a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.#1Jn 4:4 16Yet do this with gentleness and reverence, keeping a clear conscience,#Ac 23:1; 24:16; Rm 9:1; 2Co 1:12; 1Tm 1:5,19; 3:9; Heb 10:22; 1Pt 3:21 so that when you are accused,#3:16 Other mss read when they speak against you as evildoers those who disparage your good conduct in Christ will be put to shame. 17For it is better to suffer#Php 1:29; 1Pt 2:19 for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.
18For Christ also suffered#Mk 8:31; Rm 5:8 for sins once for all,#Rm 6:10; Heb 9:28; 10:10; 1Pt 2:21; 4:1 the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God.#Rm 5:2 He was put to death in the flesh#3:18 Or by the flesh, or in the fleshly realm#Eph 2:14 but made alive by the Spirit,#3:18 Or in the spirit, or in the Spirit, or in the spiritual realm 19in which#3:19 Or by whom, or in whom, or at that time he also went and made proclamation to the spirits#1Jn 4:1 in prison 20who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah#Gn 5:29 while the ark was being prepared. In it a few — that is, eight people#3:20 Or souls#Gn 5:32; 6:18; 7:7,13; 8:16,18 — were saved through water. 21Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you (not as the removal of dirt from the body,#Heb 9:14; 10:22 but the pledge#3:21 Or the appeal of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,#1Pt 1:3 22who has gone into heaven#Ac 1:10,12; 1Tm 3:16; Heb 4:14; 6:20 and is at the right hand of God#Ps 110:1; Mk 16:19; Ac 2:33–34; Rm 8:34; Heb 10:12 with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him.#Eph 1:20–22
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1 Peter 3
3
The Behavior of Wives and Husbands
1 #
Eph 5.22; Col 3.18. Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 2while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. 3#1 Tim 2.9. Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. 5For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: 6#Gen 18.12. even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
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Eph 5.25; Col 3.19. Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Suffer for Righteousness' Sake
8Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 9not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
10 #
Ps 34.12-16. For he that will love life,
and see good days,
let him refrain his tongue from evil,
and his lips that they speak no guile:
11let him eschew evil, and do good;
let him seek peace, and ensue it.
12For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous,
and his ears are open unto their prayers:
but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
13And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? 14#Isa 8.12,13. #Matt 5.10. But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; 15but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear: 16having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 17For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evildoing. 18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20#Gen 6.1—7.24. which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 21The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: 22who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
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