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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the word, they may be won over without a word by the way their wives live |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2when they observe your pure, reverent lives. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Don't let your beauty consist of outward things like elaborate hairstyles and wearing gold jewelry, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4but rather what is inside the heart--the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For in the past, the holy women who put their hope in God also adorned themselves in this way, submitting to their own husbands, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You have become her children when you do what is good and do not fear any intimidation. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with a weaker partner, showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Finally, all of you be like-minded and sympathetic, love one another, and be compassionate and humble, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you may inherit a blessing. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For the one who wants to love life and to see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11and let him turn away from evil and do what is good. Let him seek peace and pursue it, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do what is evil. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Who then will harm you if you are devoted to what is good? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But even if you should suffer for righteousness, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear or be intimidated, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15but in your hearts regard Christ the Lord as holy, ready at any time to give a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Yet do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that when you are accused, those who disparage your good conduct in Christ will be put to shame. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19in which he also went and made proclamation to the spirits in prison |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared. In it a few--that is, eight people--were saved through water. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you (not as the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him. |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. |
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