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1 Peter 3 Summary
Submission, Suffering, and Conscience
Peter instructs wives to be in subjection to their husbands, with chaste conversation and hidden adorning of a meek spirit rather than outward adornment. Husbands are to dwell with wives according to knowledge, honouring them as fellow heirs of God's grace. All believers must be of one mind, compassionate, and render not evil for evil but contrariwise blessing. Peter exhorts them to live righteously and be ready to give account of their hope with meekness and fear; Christ once suffered for sins to bring them to God, and was quickened by the Spirit.
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1 Peter 3:3-4
“Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;”
1 Peter 3:15
“But sanctify 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 with meekness and fear:”
1 Peter 3:18
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”
1 Peter 3:21
“The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:”
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