{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/1-peter/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T11:24:34.034Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"1 Peter","bookSlug":"1-peter","chapter":3,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"In like manner also let wives be subject to their husbands: that if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Considering your chaste conversation with fear. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Whose adorning let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel: "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"But the hidden man of the heart in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit, which is rich in the sight of God. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For after this manner heretofore the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, doing well, and not fearing any disturbance. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel, and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble: "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Let him decline from evil, and do good: let him seek after peace and pursue it: "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their prayers: but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil things. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And who is he that can hurt you, if you be zealous of good? "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"But if also you suffer any thing for justice' sake, blessed are ye. And be not afraid of their fear, and be not troubled. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience: that whereas they speak evil of you, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For it is better doing well (if such be the will of God) to suffer, than doing ill. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit, "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison: "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Whereunto baptism being of the like form, now saveth you also: not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the examination of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Who is on the right hand of God, swallowing down death, that we might be made heirs of life everlasting: being gone into heaven, the angels and powers and virtues being made subject to him. "}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Peter 3 (DRB)","markdown":"[1 Peter 3](https://primebible.com/drb/1-peter/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/1-peter/3 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}