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In like manner, ye wives, {cf15i be} in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behaviour of their wives; |
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beholding your chaste behaviour {cf15i coupled} with fear. |
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Whose {cf15i adorning} let it not be the outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel; |
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but {cf15i let it be} the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible {cf15i apparel} of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. |
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For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: |
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as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror. |
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Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with {cf15i your wives} according to knowledge, giving honour unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered. |
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Finally, {cf15i be} ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded: |
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not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing. |
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For, He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile: |
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And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and pursue it. |
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For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears unto their supplication: But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil. |
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And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good? |
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But and if ye should suffer for righteousness- sake, blessed {cf15i are ye}: and fear not their fear, neither be troubled; |
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but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: {cf15i being} ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear: |
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having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ. |
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For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing. |
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Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the spirit; |
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in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, |
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which aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water: |
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which also after a true likeness doth now save you, {cf15i even} baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ; |
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who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him. |
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