OrthJBC - I Peter - 3

3:1  Nashim (wives), submit similarly to your own ba'alim (husbands), that even if any anashim lack mishma'at (obedience) to the Dvar Hashem [of the Besuras HaGeulah--1:25], through the hitnahagut (conduct) of their nashim they may be won without the dvar,

3:2  when they see your yirat Shomayim and your midas chassidus (quality of piety). WINNING BA'ALIM TO MOSHIACH AND THE MATTER OF TZNIUS

3:3  Do not let your adornment be outward: with coiffures and with wearing gold or fine apparel,

3:4  but let your adornment be hidden: adornment shebalev (inwardly) by the imperishable [1:4] adorning of the quiet ruach anavah (humble spirit), which is before Hashem of great worth.

3:5  For so formerly also the nashim hakedoshot (holy women) whose tikvah was in Hashem were adorning themselves, submitting themselves to their own ba'alim.

3:6  Just so, Sarah submitted in mishma'at (obedience) to Avraham Avinu, calling him ADONI [BERESHIS 18:12]. You became her banot (daughters), acting as nashei tzedek [2:15] and not fearing any intimidation [Mishle 3:25]. BA'ALIM AND THEIR NASHIM AS YORESHIM TOGETHER

3:7  Likewise, Ba'alim (Husbands), dwell with them according to the da'as of the isha as a k'li rach (weaker vessel), showing them kavod as also being yoreshim together [3:9] of the mattanah (gift) of the Chen v'Chesed haChayim, so that your tefillos will not be hindered [3:12; 4:7]. SUMMING UP: SHALOM BAYIS OF MOSHIACH IN THE KEHILLAH DURING THE COMING TIME OF TZOROS

3:8  Now, to say over, all of you be an agudah (union) in your thinking, have achdus, be sympathetic, having ahavah (agap‚) for the achim [Tehillim 133:1], being anshei rachamim, sh'fal ruach (lowly of spirit),

3:9  not rendering ra'ah for ra'ah or lashon hora for lashon hora, but, fahkert (on the contrary), rendering a berachah (blessing), because to this purpose you were given your keri'ah (calling), that you may inherit a berachah (blessing).

3:10  HAISH HECHAFETZ CHAYYIM OHEV YAMIM LIROT TOV ("For the one wanting to love life and to see good days") NETZOR L'SHONCHA MEYRAH USFATECHA MIDABEIR MIRMAH ("Let him stop his tongue from speaking lashon hora and his lips from speaking remiyah [guile, fraud, deceit]--TEHILLIM 34:13f)."

3:11  SUR MEYRAH VA'ASEIR TOV BAKESH SHALOM V'RADEFEHU ("Let him turn away from resha and let him do that which is good, let him seek shalom and pursue it");

3:12  EINEI Hashem EL TZADDIKIM V'AZNAV EL SHAV'ATAM ("Because the tzaddikim are before the eyes of Hashem and His ears are open to their tefillos"--TEHILLIM 34:15-16). P'NEI Hashem B'OSEI RAH L'HACHRIT MEYA'RETZ ZICHRAM ("But the face of the L-rd is against the ones doing evil to cut off their memory from the earth"--TEHILLIM 34:15-17).

3:13  And who is the one harming you if you become Kannaim haTov (Zealots of the Good)?

3:14  But if indeed you should suffer tzoros because of the tzedek Hashem, you are ashrey (blessed,happy). But do not fear their pachad (terror), neither be troubled.

3:15  But reverence in your levavot (hearts) Moshiach as Adoneinu, prepared always for an apologetic defense to everyone coming to you with a sh'eilah (question), ready with a word concerning the tikvah in you,

3:16  but with anavah (meekness) and yirat Shomayim, having a matzpun tahor (clean conscience [3:21]), so that, when you are maligned by lashon hora, your abusers may be humiliated by your midas chassidus (quality of piety) in Moshiach. ON TESHUVAH AND EMUNAH IN MOSHIACH OUR MEMALLE MAKOM (SUBSTITUTE) AND ON MOSHIACH'S TEVILAH IN THE MIKVEH MAYIM, WHICH IS A PLEDGE FOR A MATZPUN TAHOR AND WHICH WAS PREFIGURED BY THE MABBUL (FLOOD) WHEN MOSHIACH WENT TO THE RUCHOT IN MISHMAR

3:17  For if such is the ratzon Hashem, it is better to suffer tzoros for doing mitzvot than for doing ra'ah.

3:18  Because, indeed, Moshiach suffered once on behalf of chata'im (sins), a tzaddik (righteous one) on behalf of the chatta'im (unrighteous ones, sinners), that he might bring you to Hashem--he, having been, in the basar of Moshiach [Tehillim 16:9-10], put to death, yet, in the Ruach Hakodesh, having been made alive [4:6];

3:19  in which also to the ruchot (spirits) in mishmar (prison), having gone, Moshiach made the hachrazah (proclamation, kyrygma)

3:20  to ones without mishma'at (obedience) back then when the zitzfleisch (patience) of Hashem was waiting, in the days of Noach, while the Teva (Ark) was being prepared, in which a few, that is shemoneh nefashot (eight souls), were delivered through that mabbul's mikveh mayim;

3:21  and Moshiach's tevilah in the mikveh mayim, which this mabbul prefigures, now delivers you, not by means of the removal of filth from the basar, but by means of the hitchaiy'vut (pledge) of a matzpun tahor toward Hashem, through the Techiyas haMesim of Moshiach Yehoshua,

3:22  who is at the right hand of Hashem, having gone into Shomayim, with malachim and rashuyot (authorities) and gevurot under his feet.