1Peter:3

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* Likewise , all of you wives , be in subjection to your own husbands ; that , if any obey not the word , (o . logos ) they also may without the word (o . logos ) be won by the conversation of the wives ; * While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with (o . rhema ) fear . * Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of braiding the hair , and of wearing of gold , or of putting on of apparel ; * But let it be the hidden man of the heart , in that which is not corruptible , even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit , (o . pneuma ) which is in the sight of God of great price . * For after this manner in the old time the holy women also , who trusted in God , adorned themselves , being in subjection unto their own husbands : * Even as Sara obeyed Abraham , calling him lord : whose daughters all of you are , as long as all of you do well , and are not afraid with any amazement . * Likewise , all of you husbands , dwell with them according to knowledge , giving honour unto the wife , as unto the weaker vessel , and as being heirs together of the grace of life ; that your prayers be not hindered . * Finally , be all of you all of one mind , having compassion one of another , love as brethren , be pitiful , be courteous : * Not rendering evil for evil , or railing for railing : but contrariwise blessing ; knowing that all of you are thereunto called , that all of you should inherit a blessing . * For he that will love life , and see good days , let him refrain his tongue from evil , and his lips that they speak no guile : * Let him shun evil , and do good ; let him seek peace , and pursue it . * For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous , and his ears are open unto their prayers : but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil . * And who is he that will harm you , if all of you be followers of that which is good ? * But and if all of you suffer for righteousness ' sake , happy are all of you : and be not afraid of their terror , neither be troubled ; * But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts : and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason (o . logos ) of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear : * Having a good conscience ; that , whereas they speak evil of you , as of evildoers , they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ . * For it is better , if the will of God be so , that all of you suffer for well doing , than for evil doing . * For Christ also has once suffered for sins , the just for the unjust , that he might bring us to God , being put to death in the flesh , but quickened by the Spirit : (o . pneuma ) * By which also he went and preached unto the spirits (o . pneuma ) in prison ; * Which sometime were disobedient , when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah , while the ark was a preparing , wherein few , that is , eight souls were saved by water . * The like figure unto which even baptism does also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh , but the answer of a good conscience toward God ,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ : * Who is gone into heaven , and is on the right hand of God ; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him .

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