1 Peter 3Book 60 of 66 · 22 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. Likewise, wives — be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,
  2. as they observe your pure and reverent conduct.
  3. Let your adornment not be the outward — braiding the hair, wearing gold jewelry, or putting on fine clothing —
  4. but the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
  5. For this is the way the holy women in former times — who hoped in God — adorned themselves, by being subject to their own husbands.
  6. Just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord — and you have become her children if you do good and are not frightened by any fear.
  7. You husbands likewise — live with your wives in an understanding way, as with the weaker vessel, granting her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life — so that your prayers may not be hindered.
  8. Finally, all of you — be of one mind, sympathetic, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, humble in mind.
  9. Not returning evil for evil, or insult for insult — but on the contrary, blessing. For to this you were called — that you may inherit a blessing.
  10. For "the one who desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
  11. Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.
  12. For the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and His ears are attentive to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."
  13. And who is going to harm you, if you become zealous for what is good?
  14. But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness — you are blessed. "Do not fear what they fear, and do not be troubled."
  15. But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts — always being ready to give a defense to anyone who asks you for an account of the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence.
  16. Have a good conscience — so that those who slander your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame in the very thing they speak against.
  17. For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
  18. For Christ also suffered once for sins — the righteous for the unrighteous — that He might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
  19. in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits in prison —
  20. those who once were disobedient when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few — that is, eight souls — were brought safely through the water.
  21. Corresponding to this, baptism now saves you — not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but the appeal to God for a good conscience — through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
  22. who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven — angels and authorities and powers having been subjected to Him.