1 Peter 3
The Behavior of Wives
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Likewise, ye wives, be in
subjection to your own husbands; Eph. 5.22 · Col. 3.18 that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the
word be won by the conversation of the wives;
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while they behold your chaste
conversation coupled with fear.
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Whose adorning, let it not be that
outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of
gold, or of putting on of apparel; 1 Tim. 2.9
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but let it be the hidden man of
the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the
ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of
God of great price.
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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:
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even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him
lord: Gen. 18.12 whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not
afraid with any amazement.
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Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, Eph.
5.25 · Col.
3.19 as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs
together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not
hindered.
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Suffer for
Righteousness' Sake |
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Finally, be ye all of one mind,
having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
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not rendering evil for evil, or railing
for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are
thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
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For he that will love life,
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and see good days, |
let him refrain his tongue from evil, |
and his lips that they speak no
guile: |
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let him eschew evil, and do good;
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let him seek peace, and ensue
it. |
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For the eyes of the Lord are over
the righteous,
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and his ears are open unto their
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but the face of the Lord is against them that
do evil. Ps.
34.12-16 |
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And who is he that will harm
you, if ye be followers of that which is good?
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But and if ye suffer for righteousness'
sake, happy are ye: Mt. 5.10 and be not afraid of their terror, neither be
troubled;
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but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: Is.
8.12, 13 and be ready always to give an answer to every
man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with
meekness and fear:
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having a good conscience; that, whereas
they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that
falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
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For it is better, if the will of
God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for
evildoing.
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For Christ also hath once suffered for
sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being
put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
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by which also he went and preached unto
the spirits in prison;
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which sometime were disobedient, when
once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the
ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by
water. Gen. 6.1--7.24
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The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us, (not the putting away of the filth of
the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ:
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who is gone into heaven, and is on the
right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made
subject unto him.
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