Wives and Husbands
1 In the same way, wives,submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message,they may be won overwithout a message by the way their wives live
2 when they observe your pure, reverent lives.
3 Your beauty should not consist of outward things like elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold ornamentsor fine clothes.
4 Instead, it should consist of what is insidethe heartwith the imperishable quality of a gentleand quietspirit, which is very valuable in God’s eyes.
5 For in the past, the holywomen who put their hopein God also beautified themselves in this way, submitting to their own husbands,
6 just as Sarahobeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You have become her children when you do what is good and are not frightened by anything alarming.
7 Husbands,in the same way, live with your wives with an understanding of their weaker natureyet showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
Do No Evil
8 Now finally, all of you should be like-minded and sympathetic, should love believers,and be compassionateand humble,
9 not paying back evil for evilor insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing,since you were called for this, so that you can inherit a blessing.
10 For theone who wants to love life
and to see good days
must keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit,
11 and he must turn awayfrom evil
and do what is good.
He must seek peaceand pursue it,
12 because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
and His ears are open to their request.
But the face of the Lord is against
those who do what is evil.
Undeserved Suffering
13 And who will harmyou if you are deeply committed to what is good?
14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness,you are blessed. Do not fear what they fearor be disturbed,
15 but honorthe Messiahas Lord in your hearts. Always be ready to give a defense to anyone who asks you for a reasonfor the hope that is in you.
16 However, do this with gentleness and respect, keeping your conscience clear,so that when you are accused,those who denounce your Christian lifewill be put to shame.
17 For it is better to sufferfor doing good, if that should be God’s will,than for doing evil.
18 For Christ also sufferedfor sins once for all,
the righteous for the unrighteous,
that He might bring youto God,
after being put to death in the fleshly realm
but made alive in the spiritual realm.
19 In that stateHe also went and made a proclamation to the spiritsin prison
20 who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noahwhile an ark was being prepared. In it a few — that is, eight people— were saved through water.
21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you (not the removal of the filth of the flesh,but the pledgeof a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
22 Now that He has gone into heaven,He is at God’s right handwith angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.
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