Likewise, ye wives, [be] subject to your own husbands, that even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without word through the behaviour of the wives,
having beheld your chaste behaviour in fear;
whose adornment let it not be the outward one of plaiting the hair, and of wearing gold, or of putting on apparel,
but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible of the meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God very precious.
For thus also heretofore the holy women that hoped in God adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands;
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children ye became doing good and not being afraid of any dismay.
Ye husbands, likewise, dwelling with [them] according to knowledge, awarding honour as to a weaker vessel(the female, as also fellow-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
Finally [be] all likeminded, sympathetic, brother-loving, tender-hearted, humble-minded;
not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, because hereunto ye were called, that ye should inherit blessing.
For he that will love life and see good days, let him stop his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile;
and let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it;
because [the] Lord’s eyes [are] on the righteous and his ears unto their supplication; but [the] Lord’s face is against evil-doers.
And who shall injure you if ye become zealous of the good?
But if even ye should suffer for righteousness, blessed [are ye]; and be not afraid of their fear, nor be troubled,
but sanctify the Christ as Lord in your hearts, ready always for answer to everyone that asketh you a reason for the hope that is in you, but with meekness and fear,
having a good conscience, that in what they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed that revile your good behaviour in Christ.
For [it is] better, if the will of God should will [it], to suffer [for] well-doing than [for] evil-doing.
Because even Christ once suffered for sins, just for unjust, that he might bring us to God, put to death indeed in flesh, but made alive in [the] Spirit,
in [virtue of] which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
disobedient aforetime when the long-suffering of God was waiting in Noah’s days, while an ark was being prepared, in which few, that is eight souls, were brought safe through water;
which figure also now saveth you, baptism, not a putting away of filth of flesh, but a request of a good conscience toward God through Jesus Christ’s resurrection;
who is at God’s right hand, having proceeded into heaven, angels, and authorities, and powers being subjected to him.