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Wives
In the same way, you wives must accept the authority of your husbands. Then, even if some refuse to obey the Good News, your godly lives will speak to them without any words. They will be won over
In the same way, you wives must accept the authority of your husbands. Then, even if some refuse to obey the Good News, your godly lives will speak to them without any words. They will be won over
Wives and Husbands
Likewise, wives, [be] subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without [the] word by the conversation of the wives,
Likewise, wives, [be] subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without [the] word by the conversation of the wives,
by observing your pure and reverent lives.
having witnessed your pure conversation [carried out] in fear;
Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty of fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes.
whose adorning let it not be that outward one of tressing of hair, and wearing gold, or putting on apparel;
You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God.
but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price.
This is how the holy women of old made themselves beautiful. They put their trust in God and accepted the authority of their husbands.
For thus also the holy women who have hoped in God heretofore adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands;
For instance, Sarah obeyed her husband, Abraham, and called him her master. You are her daughters when you do what is right without fear of what your husbands might do.
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children ye have become, doing good, and not fearing with any kind of consternation.
Husbands
In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God’s gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered.
[Ye] husbands likewise, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, as with a weaker, [even] the female, vessel, giving [them] honour, as also fellow-heirs of [the] grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
Turn from Evil
Finally, [be] all of one mind, sympathising, full of brotherly love, tender hearted, humble minded;
Finally, [be] all of one mind, sympathising, full of brotherly love, tender hearted, humble minded;
Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and he will grant you his blessing.
not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary, blessing [others], because ye have been called to this, that ye should inherit blessing.
For the Scriptures say,
“If you want to enjoy life
and see many happy days,
keep your tongue from speaking evil
and your lips from telling lies.
“If you want to enjoy life
and see many happy days,
keep your tongue from speaking evil
and your lips from telling lies.
For he that will love life and see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil and his lips that they speak no guile.
Turn away from evil and do good.
Search for peace, and work to maintain it.
Search for peace, and work to maintain it.
And let him avoid evil, and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it;
because [the] eyes of [the] Lord [are] on [the] righteous, and his ears towards their supplications; but [the] face of [the] Lord [is] against them that do evil.
Suffering for Doing Good
Now, who will want to harm you if you are eager to do good?
And who shall injure you if ye have become imitators of that which [is] good?
But even if you suffer for doing what is right, God will reward you for it. So don’t worry or be afraid of their threats.
Suffering for Righteousness
But if also ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed [are ye]; but be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;
But if also ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed [are ye]; but be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;
Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it.
but sanctify [the] Lord the Christ in your hearts, and [be] always prepared to [give] an answer [to] every one that asks you to give an account of the hope that [is] in you, but with meekness and fear;
having a good conscience, that [as to that] in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ.
Remember, it is better to suffer for doing good, if that is what God wants, than to suffer for doing wrong!
For [it is] better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer [as] well-doers than [as] evildoers;
for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, [the] just for [the] unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in [the] Spirit,
So he went and preached to the spirits in prison —
in which also going he preached to the spirits [which are] in prison,
heretofore disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in [the] days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:
which figure also now saves you, [even] baptism, not a putting away of [the] filth of flesh, but [the] demand as before God of a good conscience, by [the] resurrection of Jesus Christ,