LITV - I Peter - 3

3:1  Likewise, wives, submitting yourselves to your own husbands, that even if any disobey the word, through the behavior of the wives, without a word they will be won,

3:2  observing your pure behavior in fear.

3:3  Of whom let it not be the outward act of braiding of hairs, and of putting gold around, or of clothing of adorning garments,

3:4  but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of the meek and quiet spirit, which is of great value before God.

3:5  For so once indeed the holy women who were hoping on God adorned themselves, submitting themselves to their own husbands,

3:6  as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children you became, doing good, and fearing no terror. Gen. 18:12

3:7  Likewise, husbands, dwelling together according to knowledge, as with a weaker vessel, the female, bestowing honor, as truly being co-heirs of the grace of life, not cutting off your prayers.

3:8  And, finally, be all of one mind, sympathetic, loving the brothers, tenderhearted, friendly,

3:9  not giving back evil for evil, or reviling against reviling; but, on the contrary, give blessing; knowing that you were called to this in order that you might inherit blessing.

3:10  "For the one desiring to love life, and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, even his lips not to speak guile.

3:11  Let him turn aside from evil, and let him do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it;

3:12  because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against any doing evil things." LXX-Psa. 33:13-17; MT-Psa. 34:12-16

3:13  And who is the one harming you if you become imitators of the good?

3:14  But if you truly suffer because of righteousness, blessed are you . "But do not fear their fear, nor be troubled.

3:15  But sanctify" Isa. 8:12, 13 the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give an answer to everyone asking you a reason concerning the hope in you, with meekness and fear,

3:16  having a good conscience, that while they speak against you as evildoers, they may be shamed, those falsely accusing your good behavior in Christ.

3:17  For it is better, if the will of God wills it , to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

3:18  Because even Christ once suffered concerning sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God; indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;

3:19  in which also, going in to the spirits in prison, He then proclaimed

3:20  to disobeying ones, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, an ark having been prepared in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

3:21  Which figure now also saves us, baptism (not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

3:22  who going into Heaven is at the right of God, the angels, and authorities, and powers being subjected to Him).