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1 Peter - Chapter 3

	1Pe 3:1	In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any {of them} are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,
	1Pe 3:2	as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior.
	1Pe 3:3	Your adornment must not be {merely} external--braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses;
	1Pe 3:4	but {let it be} the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God.
	1Pe 3:5	For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands;
	1Pe 3:6	just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.
	1Pe 3:7	You husbands in the same way, live with {your wives} in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
	1Pe 3:8	To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit;
	1Pe 3:9	not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.
	1Pe 3:10	For, "THE ONE WHO DESIRES LIFE, TO LOVE AND SEE GOOD DAYS, MUST KEEP HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL AND HIS LIPS FROM SPEAKING DECEIT.
	1Pe 3:11	"HE MUST TURN AWAY FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD; HE MUST SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT.
	1Pe 3:12	"FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE TOWARD THE RIGHTEOUS, AND HIS EARS ATTEND TO THEIR PRAYER, BUT THE FACE OF THE LORD IS AGAINST THOSE WHO DO EVIL."
	1Pe 3:13	Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good?
	1Pe 3:14	But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED,
	1Pe 3:15	but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always {being} ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;
	1Pe 3:16	and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.
	1Pe 3:17	For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
	1Pe 3:18	For Christ also died for sins once for all, {the} just for {the} unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
	1Pe 3:19	in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits {now} in prison,
	1Pe 3:20	who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through {the} water.
	1Pe 3:21	Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you--not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
	1Pe 3:22	who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.

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