¹In the same way , wives , be in subjection to your own husbands, so that , even if any don’t obey the Word , they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word ,

²seeing your pure behavior in fear .

³Let your beauty come not from the outward adorning of braiding your hair , and of wearing gold ornaments or of putting on fine clothing ,

⁴but from the hidden person of the heart , in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit , which is very precious in God ’s sight .

⁵For this is how in the past the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves , being in subjection to their own husbands.

⁶So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord , whose children you now are if you do well and are not put in fear by any terror.

⁷You husbands, in the same way , live with your wives according to knowledge , giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel , as also being joint heirs of the grace of life , that your prayers may not be hindered .

⁸Finally , all of you be like-minded, compassionate , loving as brothers, tenderhearted , courteous,

⁹not rendering evil for evil or insult for insult ; but instead blessing , knowing that you were called to this , that you may inherit a blessing .

¹⁰For ,

“He who would love life

and see good days ,

let him keep his tongue from evil

and his lips from speaking deceit .

¹¹Let him turn away from evil and do good .

Let him seek peace and pursue it .

¹²For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous ,

and his ears open to their prayer ;

but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil .”

¹³Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good ?

¹⁴But even if you should suffer for righteousness ’ sake , you are blessed . “Don’t fear what they fear , neither be troubled .”[#Isaiah 8:12]

¹⁵But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts . Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you , with humility and fear ,

¹⁶having a good conscience . Thus , while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Messiah .

¹⁷For it is better , if it is God ’s will , that you suffer for doing what is right than for doing evil .

¹⁸Because Messiah also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God , being put to death in the flesh , but made alive in the Spirit ,

¹⁹in whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison ,

²⁰who before were disobedient when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ship was being built . In it , few , that is , eight souls , were saved through water .

²¹This is a symbol of immersion, which now saves you —not the putting away of the filth of the flesh , but the answer of a good conscience toward God —through the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah ,

²²who is at the right hand of God , having gone into heaven , angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him .