1 Peter 3

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1. 1In the same way, wives, place yourselves under the authority of your own husbands. That way, even if some of them don't obey the word, they can be won over without a word — simply by watching how their wives live.
2. 2When they see your pure conduct combined with fear.
3. 3Don't let your beauty be about outward things — braided hair, gold jewelry, or fine clothes.
4. 4But let it be the hidden person of the heart, in that which is not perishable, even the adornment of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
5. 5This is how the holy women of the past, who trusted in God, made themselves beautiful, submitting to their own husbands.
6. 6Sarah, for example, obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters when you do what is right and refuse to give in to fear.
7. 7Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives with understanding, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
8. 8Finally, all of you should be united in how you think, full of compassion for each other, loving as brothers and sisters, tenderhearted, and humble.
9. 9Never repay evil with evil or insult with insult. Instead, respond with a blessing, knowing that you were called to this so that you would inherit a blessing.
10. 10Whoever wants to love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from speaking guile.
11. 11They must turn away from evil and do good. They must search for peace and chase after it.
12. 12For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
13. 13And who will harm you if you are followers of what is good?
14. 14But even if you suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are you: and do not be afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
15. 15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear:
16. 16keeping a clear conscience. That way, when people slander you and attack your good conduct in Christ, they will end up ashamed of their own words.
17. 17After all, if God's will leads you to suffer, it's far better to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
18. 18For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, so that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit.
19. 19Through the Spirit, he also went and proclaimed his message to the spirits held in prison —
20. 20those who had been disobedient long ago, when the longsuffering of God waited during the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In that ark, only a few people — eight souls — were saved through water.
21. 21The like figure to which baptism now saves us—not by removing dirt from the body, but as the response of a good conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
22. 22He has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God; angels, authorities, and powers are made subject to him.