Reformation Directory

1 ^H^o^w ^wⁱ^v^e^s ^o^u^g^h^t ^t^o ^o^r^d^e^r ^t^h^e^m^s^e^l^v^e^s ^t^o^w^a^r^d ^t^h^eⁱ^r ^h^u^s^b^aⁿ^d^s, 3 ^Aⁿ^d ⁱⁿ ^t^h^eⁱ^r ^a^p^p^a^r^e^l. 7 ^T^h^e ^d^u^t^y ^o^f ^m^eⁿ ^t^o^w^a^r^d ^t^h^eⁱ^r ^wⁱ^v^e^s. 8 ^H^e ^e^x^h^o^r^t^e^t^h ^a^l^l ^m^eⁿ ^t^o ^uⁿⁱ^t^y ^aⁿ^d ^l^o^v^e, 14 ^Aⁿ^d ^p^a^tⁱ^eⁿ^t^l^y ^t^o ^s^u^f^f^e^r ^t^r^o^u^b^l^e ^b^y ^t^h^e ^e^x^a^m^p^l^e ^aⁿ^d ^b^eⁿ^e^fⁱ^t ^o^f ^C^h^rⁱ^s^t.

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 appareling let it not be outward, as with broyded hair, and gold put about, or in putting on of apparel.

4.But let the hid 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 holie women, which trusted in God, attire themselves, and were subject to their husbands.

6.As Sara obeyed Abraham, and *called him ^Sir: whose daughters ye are, whiles ye do well, not being ^aafraid of any terror.

7.*Likewise ye husbands, dwell with them as men of ^bknowledge, ^cgiving honour unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, even as they which are ^dheirs together of the grace of life, that your ^eprayers 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 contrary wise bless, knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should be ^fheirs 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 no 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 ^gis 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, ^hfear not their fear, neither be troubled.

15.*But ⁱsanctify 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 evil doers, 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, then 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 ^kspirit.

19.By the which ^lhe also went, and preached unto the spirits that were in prison.

20.Which were in time passed disobedient, when once the long suffering of God abode in the days of *Noe, 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.

1 Peter 3

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