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1 Peter 3

The Message Bible MSG

1 The same goes for you wives: Be good wives to your husbands, responsive to their needs. There are husbands who, indifferent as they are to any words about God, will be captivated

2 by your life of holy beauty.

3 What matters is not your outer appearance - the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes -

4 but your inner disposition.

5 The holy women of old were beautiful before God that way, and were good, loyal wives to their husbands.

6 Sarah, for instance, taking care of Abraham, would address him as "my dear husband." You'll be true daughters of Sarah if you do the same, unanxious and unintimidated.

7 The same goes for you husbands: Be good husbands to your wives. Honor them, delight in them. As women they lack some of your advantages. But in the new life of God's grace, you're equals. Treat your wives, then, as equals so your prayers don't run aground. Suffering for Doing Good

8 Summing up: Be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble.

9 That goes for all of you, no exceptions. No retaliation. No sharp-tongued sarcasm. Instead, bless - that's your job, to bless. You'll be a blessing and also get a blessing.

10 Whoever wants to embrace life and see the day fill up with good, Here's what you do: Say nothing evil or hurtful;

11 Snub evil and cultivate good; run after peace for all you're worth.

12 God looks on all this with approval, listening and responding well to what he's asked; But he turns his back on those who do evil things.

13 If with heart and soul you're doing good, do you think you can be stopped?

14 Even if you suffer for it, you're still better off. Don't give the opposition a second thought.

15 Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you're living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy.

16 Keep a clear conscience before God so that when people throw mud at you, none of it will stick. They'll end up realizing that they're the ones who need a bath.

17 It's better to suffer for doing good, if that's what God wants, than to be punished for doing bad.

18 That's what Christ did definitively: suffered because of others' sins, the Righteous One for the unrighteous ones. He went through it all - was put to death and then made alive - to bring us to God.

19 He went and proclaimed God's salvation to earlier generations who ended up in the prison of judgment

20 because they wouldn't listen. You know, even though God waited patiently all the days that Noah built his ship, only a few were saved then, eight to be exact - saved from the water by the water.

21 The waters of baptism do that for you, not by washing away dirt from your skin but by presenting you through Jesus' resurrection before God with a clear conscience.

22 Jesus has the last word on everything and everyone, from angels to armies. He's standing right alongside God, and what he says goes.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 similiter mulieres subditae suis viris ut et si qui non credunt verbo per mulierum conversationem sine verbo lucri fiant

2 considerantes in timore castam conversationem vestram

3 quarum sit non extrinsecus capillaturae aut circumdatio auri aut indumenti vestimentorum cultus

4 sed qui absconditus cordis est homo in incorruptibilitate quieti et modesti spiritus quod est in conspectu Dei locuples

5 sic enim aliquando et sanctae mulieres sperantes in Deo ornabant se subiectae propriis viris

6 sicut Sarra oboediebat Abrahae dominum eum vocans cuius estis filiae benefacientes et non timentes ullam perturbationem

7 viri similiter cohabitantes secundum scientiam quasi infirmiori vaso muliebri inpertientes honorem tamquam et coheredibus gratiae vitae uti ne inpediantur orationes vestrae

8 in fine autem omnes unianimes conpatientes fraternitatis amatores misericordes humiles

9 non reddentes malum pro malo vel maledictum pro maledicto sed e contrario benedicentes quia in hoc vocati estis ut benedictionem hereditate possideatis

10 qui enim vult vitam diligere et videre dies bonos coerceat linguam suam a malo et labia eius ne loquantur dolum

11 declinet autem a malo et faciat bonum inquirat pacem et persequatur eam

12 quia oculi Domini super iustos et aures eius in preces eorum vultus autem Domini super facientes mala

13 et quis est qui vobis noceat si boni aemulatores fueritis

14 sed et si quid patimini propter iustitiam beati timorem autem eorum ne timueritis et non conturbemini

15 Dominum autem Christum sanctificate in cordibus vestris parati semper ad satisfactionem omni poscenti vos rationem de ea quae in vobis est spe

16 sed cum modestia et timore conscientiam habentes bonam ut in eo quod detrahunt vobis confundantur qui calumniantur vestram bonam in Christo conversationem

17 melius est enim benefacientes si velit voluntas Dei pati quam malefacientes

18 quia et Christus semel pro peccatis mortuus est iustus pro iniustis ut nos offerret Deo mortificatus carne vivificatus autem spiritu

19 in quo et his qui in carcere erant spiritibus veniens praedicavit

20 qui increduli fuerant aliquando quando expectabat Dei patientia in diebus Noe cum fabricaretur arca in qua pauci id est octo animae salvae factae sunt per aquam

21 quod et vos nunc similis formae salvos facit baptisma non carnis depositio sordium sed conscientiae bonae interrogatio in Deum per resurrectionem Iesu Christi

22 qui est in dextera Dei profectus in caelum subiectis sibi angelis et potestatibus et virtutibus