3: 1 In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the ⁴⁷behavior of their wives;
⁴⁷Or, manner of life And in vss. 2, 16.

3: 2 beholding your chaste behavior coupled with fear.
3: 3 Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;
3: 4 but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of the meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
3: 5 For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own ⁴⁸husbands:
⁴⁸Or, husbands (as Sarah ... ye are become), doing well, and not being afraid.

3: 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye became, if ye do well, and are not ⁴⁹put in fear by any terror.
⁴⁹Or, afraid with

3: 7 Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor ⁵⁰unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the ⁵¹grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
⁵⁰Gk. unto the female vessel, as weaker,
⁵¹Aℵ cop^bo read manifold grace of life; p⁷² virtually alone reads grace of eternal life;

3: 8 Finally, be ye all likeminded, ⁵²compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, ⁵³humbleminded:
⁵²Gk. sympathetic,
⁵³So p⁷²BAℵCψ 1739 1852 and 108 lesser Gk. mss., cop vg (arm). 366 lesser Gk. mss. read courteous:

3: 9 not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
3: 10 For, ⁵⁴He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile:
⁵⁴Ps 34:12ff.

3: 11 And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and pursue it.
3: 12 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.
3: 13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good?
3: 14 But even if ye should suffer for righteousness’ sake, blessed are ye: and fear not their fear, ⁵⁵neither be troubled;
⁵⁵1852 reads and be not troubled; p⁷²B omit neither be troubled;

3: 15 but sanctify in your hearts ⁵⁶Christ as Lord: 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:
⁵⁶So p⁷²BAℵCψ 1739 1852 1881 1243 33 cop vg arm. 1241 2344 322 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. read God as Lord:

3: 16 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.
3: 17 For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
3: 18 Because Christ also ⁵⁷for us died for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might ⁵⁸bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
⁵⁷So (ℵ*) 1739 1852 1881 1243 2344 33 322 cop^bo. But p⁷²A(ψ) 1241 arm read for you died for sins once, And B and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. read suffered for sins once, (Cf. ch. 2:21.) C*^vid cop^sa (vg) read died for our sins once, 81 reads for us suffered for sins once,
⁵⁸p⁷²Bψ 1852 1241 1243 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., arm. But AC 1739 1881 2344 33 322 cop^sa,bo vg read bring us ℵ* omits you

3: 19 ⁵⁹in which ⁶⁰also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,
⁵⁹Or, by which (preferred by Wilson’s diaglott)
⁶⁰Or, having gone even to the spirits in prison, he heralded to them 20 that etc.

3: 20 that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while an ark was being prepared, ⁶¹wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:
⁶¹Or, into which few, that is, eight souls, were brought safely through the water:

3: 21 ⁶²which also ⁶³in the antitype doth now save you, even baptism, not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the ⁶⁴answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
⁶²So BACψ 1739 1852 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., vg arm. p⁷²ℵ* cop^sa read The antitype also doth cop^bo reads which also as an antitype doth
⁶³Or, after a true likeness doth now save you,
⁶⁴Or, inquiry or, appeal or possibly, interrogation

3: 22 who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.