KJ3 Literal Translation
1 Peter 3
1 He teaches the duty of wives and husbands to each other. 19 The benefits of Christ towards the old world.
1Likewise, wives, submitting yourselves to your own husbands, that even if any disobey the Word, through the behavior of the wives, without a word they will be won,
2observing your pure behavior in fear.
3Of whom let it not be the outward act of braiding of hairs, and of putting gold around, or putting on garments of adornment,
4but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of the meek and quiet spirit, which is of great value before God.
5For so formerly also the holy women, the ones hoping on God adorned themselves, submitting themselves to their own husbands,
6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children you became, doing good, and fearing no terror. Gen. 18:12
7Likewise, husbands, dwelling together according to knowledge, as with a weaker vessel, the feminine one, bestowing honor, as truly being co-heirs of the grace of life, not cutting off your prayers.
8And, finally, be all like-minded, sympathetic, loving the brothers, tenderhearted, friendly,
9not giving back evil for evil, or reviling against reviling; but, on the contrary, give blessing; knowing that you were called to this in order that you might inherit blessing.
10“For the one desiring to love life, and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, even his lips not to speak deceit.
11Let him turn aside from evil, and let him do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it;
12because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous ones, and His ears open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is on all doing evil things.” LXX-Psa. 33:13-17; MT-Psa. 34:12-16
13And who is the one harming you if you become imitators of the good?
14But if you truly suffer because of righteousness, blessed are you. “But do not fear their fear, nor be disturbed,
15but sanctify” the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to speak in defense to every one asking you a word about the hope in you, with meekness and fear, Isa. 8:12, 13
16having a good conscience, that while they speak against you as evil doers, they may be shamed, the ones falsely accusing your good behavior in Christ.
17For it is better, if the will of God wills it, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
18Because even Christ once suffered concerning sins, the Just One on behalf of the unjust ones, that He might bring us to God; indeed being put to death in the flesh, but being made alive in the Spirit;
19in which also, going in to the spirits in prison, He then proclaimed
20to the ones disobeying, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, an ark being prepared, into which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
21Which Antitype now also saves us; baptism, not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but a demand of a good conscience toward God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
22who having gone into Heaven is at the right hand of God, the angels, and authorities, and powers being subjected to Him.
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