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3:1  In a similar way, you wives must submit yourselves to your husbands so that, even if some of them refuse to obey the word, they may be won over without a word through your conduct as wives
3:2  when they see your pure and reverent lives.
3:3  Your beauty should not be an external one, consisting of braided hair or the wearing of gold ornaments and dresses.
3:4  Instead, it should be the inner disposition of the heart, consisting in the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which God values greatly.
3:5  After all, this is how holy women who set their hope on God used to make themselves beautiful in the past. They submitted themselves to their husbands,
3:6  just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. You have become her daughters by doing good and by not letting anything terrify you.
3:7  In a similar way, you husbands must live with your wives in an understanding manner, as with a most delicate partner. Honor them as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing may interfere with your prayers.
3:8  Finally, all of you must live in harmony, be sympathetic, love as brothers, and be compassionate and humble.
3:9  Do not pay others back evil for evil or insult for insult. Instead, keep blessing them, because you were called to inherit a blessing.
3:10  "For the person who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
3:11  He must turn away from evil and do good. He must seek peace and pursue it.
3:12  For the Lord watches the righteous, and he pays attention to their prayers. But the Lord opposes those who do wrong."
3:13  Who will harm you if you are devoted to doing what is good?
3:14  But even if you should suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. "Never be afraid of their threats, and never get upset.
3:15  Instead, exalt the Messiah" as Lord in your lives. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you to explain the hope you have.
3:16  But do this gently and respectfully, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak evil of your good conduct in the Messiah will be ashamed of slandering you.
3:17  After all, if it is the will of God, it is better to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong.
3:18  For the Messiah also suffered for sins once for all, an innocent person for the guilty, so that he could bring you to God. He was put to death in a mortal body but was brought to life by the Spirit,
3:19  in which he went and made a proclamation to those imprisoned spirits
3:20  who disobeyed long ago in the days of Noah, when God waited patiently while the ark was being built. In it a few, that is, eight persons, were saved by water.
3:21  Baptism, which is symbolized by that water, now saves you also, not by removing dirt from the body, but by asking God for a clear conscience based on the resurrection of Jesus, the Messiah,
3:22  who has gone to heaven and is at the right hand of God, where angels, authorities, and powers have been made subject to him.