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1 - In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives,

2 - Considering your chaste conversation with fear.

3 - Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel:

4 - But the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit which is rich in the sight of God.

5 - For after this manner heretofore, the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

6 - As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, doing well and not fearing any disturbance.

7 - Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

8 - And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble:

9 - Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

10 - 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.

11 - Let him decline from evil and do good: Let him seek after peace and pursue it:

12 - Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their prayers but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil things.

13 - And who is he that can hurt you, if you be zealous of good?

14 - But if also you suffer any thing for justice' sake, blessed are ye. And be not afraid of their fear: and be not troubled.

15 - But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you.

16 - But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience: that whereas they speak evil of you, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

17 - For it is better doing well (if such be the will of God) to suffer than doing ill.

18 - Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,

19 - In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison:

20 - Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.

21 - Whereunto baptism, being of the like form, now saveth you also: not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but, the examination of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

22 - Who is on the right hand of God, swallowing down death that we might be made heirs of life everlasting: being gone into heaven, the angels and powers and virtues being made subject to him.