1Pet 3
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In like manner, you wives, [be] in subjection to your won husbands; that, even if
any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their
wives;
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beholding your chaste behavior [coupled] with fear.
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Whose [adorning] let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing
jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;
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but [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [apparel] of a meek
and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
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For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves,
being in subjection to their own husbands:
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as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children you now are, if you do well,
and are not put in fear by any terror.
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You husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving
honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace
of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
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Finally, [be] you all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted,
humbleminded:
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not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing;
for hereunto were you called, that you should inherit a blessing.
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For, He who would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil,
And his lips that they speak no guile:
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And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and pursue it.
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For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears to their supplication:
But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil.
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And who is he who will harm you, if you be zealous of that which is good?
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But even if you should suffer for righteousness` sake, blessed [are you:] and fear
not their fear, neither be troubled;
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but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: [being] ready always to give answer to
every man that asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness
and fear:
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having a good conscience; that, wherein you are spoken against, they may be put to
shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ.
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For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for well-doing
than for evil-doing.
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Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that
he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
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in which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
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that aforetime were disobedient, when the patient of God waited in the days of Noah,
while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through
water:
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which also after a true likeness does now save you, [even] baptism, not the putting
away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward
God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
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who is one the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities
and powers being made subject to him.