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[1]Likewise let the wives be subject to their husbands that even they which obey not the word, may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives,
[2]While they behold your pure conversation, which is with fear.
[3]Whose apparelling let it not be outward, with braided hair, and gold put about, or in putting on of apparel.
[4]But let the hidden man of the heart be uncorrupt, with a meek and quiet spirit, which is before God a thing much set by.
[5]For even after this manner in time past did the holy women, which trusted in God, tire themselves, and were subject to their husbands.
[6]As Sara obeyed Abraham, and called him Sir: whose daughters ye are, while ye do well, not being afraid of any terror.
[7]Likewise ye husbands, dwell with them as men of knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, even as they which are heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not interrupted.
[8]Finally, be ye all of one mind: one suffer with another: love as brethren: be pitiful: be courteous,
[9]Not rendering evil for evil, neither rebuke for rebuke: but contrarywise bless, knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should be heirs of blessing.
[10]For if any man long after life, and to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak not guile.
[11]Let him eschew evil and do good: let him seek peace, and follow after it.
[12]For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: and the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil.
[13]And who is it that will harm you, if ye follow that which is good?
[14]Notwithstanding blessed are ye, if ye suffer for righteousness' sake. Yea, fear not their fear, neither be troubled.
[15]But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you,
[16]And that with meekness and reverence, having a good conscience, that when they speak evil of you as of evildoers, they may be ashamed, which blame 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 suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, and was put to death concerning the flesh, but was quickened in the spirit.
[19]By the which he also went, and preached unto the spirits that were in prison.
[20]Which were in time past disobedient, when once the long suffering of God abode in the days of Noah, while the Ark was preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved in the water.
[21]To the which also the figure that now saveth us, even Baptism agreeth (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but in that a good conscience maketh request to God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
[22]Which is at the right hand of God, gone into heaven, to whom the Angels, and Powers, and might are subject.
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