1 Peter 3:1-22 Likewise wives may do it by being subject to their own husbands, that, if any are stubborn also, as to the word, they will be gained without a word, through the behavior of their wives,

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Likewise wives may do it by being subject to their own husbands, that, if any are stubborn also, as to the word, they will be gained without a word, through the behavior of their wives, ² being spectators of your pure behavior in fear, ³ whose adornment, let it not be the outside, of braiding aught into the hair and of decking with gold, or putting on of garments, ⁴ but the hidden human of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a meek and quiet spirit, which, in God's sight, is costly." ⁵ For thus once the holy women also, whose expectation was in God, adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands" ⁶ (as Sarah obeys Abraham, calling him "lord,whose children you became), doing good and not fearing dismay in anything." ⁷ Husbands, likewise, may do it by making a home with them according to knowledge, awarding honor to the feminine as to the weaker vessel, as to those who are also joint enjoyers of the allotment of the varied grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered." ⁸ Now the finish; Be all of a like disposition, sympathetic, fond of the brethren, tenderly compassionate, of a humble disposition, ⁹ not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but, on the contrary, blessing, seeing that you were called for this, that you should be enjoying the allotment of blessing, ¹⁰ for He who is wanting to love life and be acquainted with good days, Let his tongue cease from evil And his lips speak no guile." ¹¹ Now let him avoid evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it, ¹² For the eyes of the Lord are on the just And His ears are for their petition, Yet the face of the Lord is on evil doers." ¹³ And is there anyone who will be illtreating you, if you should become zealous of good? ¹⁴ Yet if you may be suffering also because of righteousness, happy are you. Now you may not be afraid with their fear, nor yet be disturbed, ¹⁵ yet hallow the Lord Christ in your hearts, ever ready with a defense for everyone who is demanding from you an account concerning the expectation in you, but with meekness and fear, ¹⁶ having a good conscience, that, in what they are speaking against you as of evildoers, they may be mortified, who traduce your good behavior in Christ." ¹⁷ For it is better to be suffering for doing good, if the will of God may be willing, than for doing evil, ¹⁸ seeing that Christ also, for our sakes, once died concerning sins, the just for the sake of the unjust, that He may be leading us to God; being put to death, indeed, in flesh, yet vivified in spirit, ¹⁹ in which, being gone to the spirits in jail also, ²⁰ He heralds to those once stubborn, when the patience of God awaited in the days of Noah while the ark was being constructed, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were brought safely through water, ²¹ the representation of which, baptism, is now saving you also (not the putting off of the filth of the flesh, but the inquiry of a good conscience to God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, ²² Who is at God's right hand, being gone into heaven, messengers and authorities and powers being subjected to Him."