1 Peter 3 (NET)

1 Peter 3:1¹In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 3:18Eph 5:33Eph 5:22-24Titus 2:3-61 Cor 11:31 Cor 7:16Gen 3:161 Pet 3:7Rom 7:2Esth 1:16-20

1 Peter 3:2²when they see your pure and reverent conduct.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:121 Pet 1:15Phil 1:272 Pet 3:11Eph 5:331 Pet 3:15-161 Pet 3:5-6Col 3:22Eph 6:5Phil 3:20

1 Peter 3:3³Let your beauty not be external—the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 2:9-10Rom 12:2Isa 3:18-24Titus 2:3-15Isa 61:10Jer 4:30Ezek 16:7-13Jer 2:32Exod 33:4Gen 24:53

1 Peter 3:4⁴but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 3:121 Sam 16:7Matt 11:29Rom 2:29Titus 3:2Matt 23:26Rom 7:222 Cor 4:16Eph 4:21 Thess 4:11

1 Peter 3:5⁵For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 5:5Titus 2:3-41 Tim 2:151 Tim 5:10Acts 9:36Luke 2:37Luke 8:2-3Prov 31:301 Pet 3:2-41 Sam 2:1

1 Peter 3:6⁶like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 18:12Rom 9:7-9Dan 3:16-18Isa 57:11Acts 4:19Matt 26:69-751 Pet 3:14-15Acts 4:8-13Gen 18:15Gal 4:22-26

1 Peter 3:7⁷Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 3:19Gen 2:23-24Matt 19:3-9Eph 5:25-28Eph 5:331 Cor 7:3Mal 2:14-16Matt 18:191 Thess 4:4Prov 5:15-19

1 Peter 3:8⁸Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 12:10Eph 4:31-5:21 Pet 1:22Phil 4:8-9Jas 3:17Eph 4:2Zech 7:9Col 3:121 Cor 12:261 John 3:18-19

1 Peter 3:9⁹Do not return evil for evil or insult for insult, but instead bless others because you were called to inherit a blessing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 12:17Prov 20:22Rom 12:14Rom 12:19-211 Thess 5:15Luke 6:27-29Matt 5:44Prov 17:13Eph 4:32Matt 5:39

1 Peter 3:10¹⁰For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 34:12-16Jas 1:261 Pet 2:11 Pet 2:22Rev 14:5Jas 3:1-10John 1:47John 12:25Prov 3:2Prov 8:35

1 Peter 3:11¹¹And he must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 5:9Heb 12:14Ps 34:14Col 3:15Rom 14:19Jas 4:17Rom 14:173 John 1:11Rom 12:181 Tim 6:18

1 Peter 3:12¹²For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. But the Lord’s face is against those who do evil.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 34:15-16John 9:31Prov 15:29Prov 15:32 Chr 7:15Jas 5:16Prov 15:82 Chr 16:9Ezek 15:7Ps 65:2

1 Peter 3:13¹³For who is going to harm you if you are devoted to what is good?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 16:7Rom 8:281 Thess 5:153 John 1:11Ps 38:201 Cor 14:11 Tim 5:10Prov 15:9Rom 13:3Eph 5:1

1 Peter 3:14¹⁴But in fact, if you happen to suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. But do not be terrified of them or be shaken.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 10:281 Pet 2:19-20Matt 5:10-12Isa 41:10-14Isa 8:12-131 Pet 4:13-162 Cor 12:10Jas 1:12Luke 6:22-23Luke 12:4-5

1 Peter 3:15¹⁵But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 4:62 Tim 2:25-26Luke 21:14-151 Pet 3:2Matt 10:18-20Heb 6:1Ps 119:46Titus 1:2Col 1:271 Sam 12:7

1 Peter 3:16¹⁶Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:121 Pet 2:15Heb 13:18Titus 2:8Matt 5:111 Pet 2:191 Tim 1:5Acts 24:16Rom 9:11 Pet 3:21

1 Peter 3:17¹⁷For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 3:141 Pet 4:19Matt 26:391 Pet 2:151 Pet 2:20Acts 21:14Matt 26:421 Pet 4:15

1 Peter 3:18¹⁸Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 9:28Heb 9:262 Cor 5:211 Pet 4:6Rom 5:6-8Titus 2:141 John 1:9Col 1:21-22Rom 4:25Rom 8:3

1 Peter 3:19¹⁹In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 4:6Isa 61:1Isa 42:7Isa 49:9Neh 9:30Rev 20:71 Pet 1:11-12Rev 19:10

1 Peter 3:20²⁰after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:72 Pet 2:5Gen 6:3Gen 6:5Gen 8:18Gen 6:13-7:7Rom 2:4-5Gen 7:13Gen 7:17-23Matt 24:37-39

1 Peter 3:21²¹And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you —not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 16:16Ezek 36:25-26Acts 2:38Acts 22:16Gal 3:27Eph 5:26Rom 10:9-101 Pet 1:31 Cor 12:13Col 2:12

1 Peter 3:22²²who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 9:24Heb 12:2Heb 10:12Eph 1:20-21Mark 16:19Heb 8:1Rom 8:34Heb 6:20Rom 8:38Col 3:1