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   <div class="book bkPRO">
      <div class="chapter ch24" data-usfm="PRO.24">
         <div class="label">24</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 20</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Do not envy the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.24.1"><span class="content">do not desire their company;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.24.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">for their hearts plot violence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.24.2"><span class="content">and their lips talk about making trouble.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 21</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.24.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">By wisdom a house is built,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.24.3"><span class="content">and through understanding it is established;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.24.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">through knowledge its rooms are filled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.24.4"><span class="content">with rare and beautiful treasures.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 22</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The wise prevail through great power,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.24.5"><span class="content">and those who have knowledge muster their strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.24.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Surely you need guidance to wage war,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.24.6"><span class="content">and victory is won through many advisers.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 23</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.24.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Wisdom is too high for fools;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.24.7"><span class="content">in the assembly at the gate they must not open their mouths.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 24</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whoever plots evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.24.8"><span class="content">will be known as a schemer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.24.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The schemes of folly are sin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.24.9"><span class="content">and people detest a mocker.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 25</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.24.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If you falter in a time of trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.24.10"><span class="content">how small is your strength!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.24.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Rescue those being led away to death;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.24.11"><span class="content">hold back those staggering toward slaughter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.24.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If you say, &#8220;But we knew nothing about this,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.24.12"><span class="content">does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.24.12"><span class="content">Does not he who guards your life know it?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.24.12"><span class="content">Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 26</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.24.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Eat honey, my son, for it is good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.24.13"><span class="content">honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.24.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Know also that wisdom is like honey for you:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.24.14"><span class="content">If you find it, there is a future hope for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.24.14"><span class="content">and your hope will not be cut off.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 27</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Do not lurk like a thief near the house of the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.24.15"><span class="content">do not plunder their dwelling place;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.24.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.24.16"><span class="content">but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 28</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.24.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Do not gloat when your enemy falls;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.24.17"><span class="content">when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.24.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">or the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will see and disapprove</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.24.18"><span class="content">and turn his wrath away from them.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 29</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Do not fret because of evildoers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.24.19"><span class="content">or be envious of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.24.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">for the evildoer has no future hope,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.24.20"><span class="content">and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 30</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.24.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and the king, my son,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.24.21"><span class="content">and do not join with rebellious officials,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">for those two will send sudden destruction on them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.24.22"><span class="content">and who knows what calamities they can bring?</span></span></div><div class="ms1"><span class="heading">Further Sayings of the Wise</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.24.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">These also are sayings of the wise:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.24.23"><span class="content">To show partiality in judging is not good:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.24.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Whoever says to the guilty, &#8220;You are innocent,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.24.24"><span class="content">will be cursed by peoples and denounced by nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.24.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But it will go well with those who convict the guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.24.25"><span class="content">and rich blessing will come on them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.24.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.24.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">An honest answer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.24.26"><span class="content">is like a kiss on the lips.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.24.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.24.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Put your outdoor work in order</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.24.27"><span class="content">and get your fields ready;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.24.27"><span class="content">after that, build your house.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.24.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.24.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Do not testify against your neighbor without cause&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.24.28"><span class="content">would you use your lips to mislead?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.24.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.24.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Do not say, &#8220;I&#8217;ll do to them as they have done to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.24.29"><span class="content">I&#8217;ll pay them back for what they did.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.24.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.24.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I went past the field of a sluggard,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.24.30"><span class="content">past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.24.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.24.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">thorns had come up everywhere,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.24.31"><span class="content">the ground was covered with weeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.24.31"><span class="content">and the stone wall was in ruins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.24.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.24.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">I applied my heart to what I observed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.24.32"><span class="content">and learned a lesson from what I saw:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.24.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.24.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">A little sleep, a little slumber,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.24.33"><span class="content">a little folding of the hands to rest&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.24.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.24.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">and poverty will come on you like a thief</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.24.34"><span class="content">and scarcity like an armed man.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkEZK">
      <div class="chapter ch37" data-usfm="EZK.37">
         <div class="label">37</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Valley of Dry Bones</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.37.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.37.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.37.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He asked me, &#8220;Son of man, can these bones live?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.37.3"><span class="content">I said, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you alone know.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.37.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.37.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then he said to me, &#8220;Prophesy to these bones and say to them, &#8216;Dry bones, hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.37.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to these bones: I will make breath</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:5 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for this word can also mean </span><span class="fq">wind </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fq">spirit </span><span class="ft">(see verses 6-14).</span></span></span><span class="content"> enter you, and you will come to life. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.37.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.37.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.37.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.37.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.37.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.37.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then he said to me, &#8220;Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.37.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet&#8212;a vast army.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.37.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.37.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then he said to me: &#8220;Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, &#8216;Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.37.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore prophesy and say to them: &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.37.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then you, my people, will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.37.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have spoken, and I have done it, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">One Nation Under One King</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.37.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.37.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.37.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, &#8216;Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.&#8217; Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, &#8216;Belonging to Joseph (that is, to Ephraim) and all the Israelites associated with him.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.37.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.37.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.37.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;When your people ask you, &#8216;Won&#8217;t you tell us what you mean by this?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.37.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">say to them, &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph&#8212;which is in Ephraim&#8217;s hand&#8212;and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah&#8217;s stick. I will make them into a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.37.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Hold before their eyes the sticks you have written on </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.37.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and say to them, &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.37.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.37.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:23 </span><span class="ft">Many Hebrew manuscripts (see also Septuagint); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">all their dwelling places where they sinned</span></span></span><span class="content"> and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.37.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.37.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.37.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your ancestors lived. They and their children and their children&#8217;s children will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.37.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.37.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.37.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then the nations will know that I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> make Israel holy, when my sanctuary is among them forever.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1PE.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1PE.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1PE.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1PE.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God&#8217;s sight. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1PE.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Suffering for Doing Good</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1PE.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.3.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever would love life</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.3.10"><span class="content">and see good days</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.3.10"><span class="content">must keep their tongue from evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.3.10"><span class="content">and their lips from deceitful speech.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1PE.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They must turn from evil and do good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1PE.3.11"><span class="content">they must seek peace and pursue it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1PE.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1PE.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1PE.3.12"><span class="content">and his ears are attentive to their prayer,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1PE.3.12"><span class="content">but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:12 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 34:12-16</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1PE.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1PE.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1PE.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. &#8220;Do not fear their threats</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">fear what they fear</span></span></span><span class="content">; do not be frightened.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:14 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:12</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1PE.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1PE.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1PE.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For it is better, if it is God&#8217;s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1PE.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1PE.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">After being made alive,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:18,19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">but made alive in the spirit, </span><span class="fv">19 </span><span class="fqa">in which also</span></span></span><span class="content"> he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1PE.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1PE.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also&#8212;not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">but an appeal to God for a clear conscience</span></span></span><span class="content"> It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1PE.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">who has gone into heaven and is at God&#8217;s right hand&#8212;with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.</span></span></div>
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