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1 Peter 3:7

Verse 7 of 22. The 3rd of 5 chapters in 1 Peter, in The General Letters.

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.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.