Whiston(i)
1 Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives,
2 While they behold your chaste conversation, with fear.
3 Whose adorning, let it not be that [which is] outward, of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel:
4 But the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
5 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;
6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the manifold grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
8 Finally, [be ye] all unanimous, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, pitiful, humble:
9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise, blessing; because ye are thereunto called, that ye should 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 But let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
12 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.
13 And who [is] he that will harm you, if you be zealous of that which is good?
14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness sake, happy [are ye]: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
15 But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every one that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, but with meekness and fear:
16 Having a good conscience; that whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsly accuse your good conversation in Christ.
17 For [it is] better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing, than for evil-doing.
18 For Christ also hath once died for sins for us, the just for the unjust; that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickned by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 which sometime were disobedient, when the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing; wherein few persons, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.
21 The which figure baptism doth also now save you: not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the stipulation of a good conscience towards God, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
22 Who isgone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God, angels, and authorities, and powers, being made subject unto him.