New American Standard Bible 2020

1 Peter 3:9-22

9 1not returning evil for evil or 2insult for insult, but giving a 3blessing instead; for 4you were called for the very purpose that you would 5inherit a blessing. 10For, “6The one who desires life, to love and see good days, Must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.11 7He must turn away from evil and do good; He must seek peace and pursue it.12 8For the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, And His ears attend to their prayer, But the face of the Lord is against evildoers.”

13 9And who is 10there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good? 14But even if you should 11suffer for the sake of righteousness, 12you 13are blessed. 14And do not fear their 15intimidation, and do not be in dread, 15but 16sanctify 17Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready 18to make a 19defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the 20hope that is in you, but 21with gentleness and 22respect; 16 23and keep a 24good conscience so that in the thing in which 25you are slandered, those who disparage your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame. 17For 26it is better, 27if 28God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong. 18For 29Christ also 30suffered for sins 31once for all time, the just for the unjust, so that He might 32bring us to God, having been put to death 33in the flesh, but made alive 34in the 35spirit; 19in 36which He also went and made proclamation to the spirits in prison, 20who once were disobedient when the 37patience of God 38kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of 39the ark, in which a few, that is, 40eight 41persons, were brought safely through the water. 21 42Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you--43not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God 44for a 45good conscience--through 46the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 47who is at the right hand of God, 48having gone into heaven, 49after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.

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Notes

1. 1 Peter 3:9 Rom 12:17; 1 Thess 5:15 ↩
2. 1 Peter 3:9 1 Cor 4:12; 1 Pet 2:23 ↩
3. 1 Peter 3:9 Luke 6:28; Rom 12:14; 1 Cor 4:12 ↩
4. 1 Peter 3:9 1 Pet 2:21 ↩
5. 1 Peter 3:9 Gal 3:14; Heb 6:14; 12:17 ↩
6. 1 Peter 3:10 Ps 34:12, 13 ↩
7. 1 Peter 3:11 Ps 34:14 ↩
8. 1 Peter 3:12 Ps 34:15, 16 ↩
9. 1 Peter 3:13 Prov 16:7 ↩
10. 1 Peter 3:13 Lit the one who will harm you ↩
11. 1 Peter 3:14 Matt 5:10; 1 Pet 2:19ff; 4:15f ↩
12. 1 Peter 3:14 James 5:11 ↩
13. 1 Peter 3:14 Or would be ↩
14. 1 Peter 3:14 Is 8:12f; 1 Pet 3:6 ↩
15. 1 Peter 3:14 Lit fear ↩
16. 1 Peter 3:15 I.e., set apart ↩
17. 1 Peter 3:15 1 Pet 1:3 ↩
18. 1 Peter 3:15 Col 4:6 ↩
19. 1 Peter 3:15 Or argument; or explanation ↩
20. 1 Peter 3:15 1 Pet 1:3 ↩
21. 1 Peter 3:15 2 Tim 2:25 ↩
22. 1 Peter 3:15 1 Pet 1:17 ↩
23. 1 Peter 3:16 Lit having a good ↩
24. 1 Peter 3:16 1 Tim 1:5; Heb 13:18; 1 Pet 3:21 ↩
25. 1 Peter 3:16 1 Pet 2:12, 15 ↩
26. 1 Peter 3:17 1 Pet 2:20; 4:15f ↩
27. 1 Peter 3:17 Acts 18:21; 1 Pet 1:6; 2:15; 4:19 ↩
28. 1 Peter 3:17 Lit the will of God ↩
29. 1 Peter 3:18 1 Pet 2:21 ↩
30. 1 Peter 3:18 One early ms died ↩
31. 1 Peter 3:18 Heb 9:26, 28; 10:10 ↩
32. 1 Peter 3:18 Rom 5:2; Eph 3:12 ↩
33. 1 Peter 3:18 Col 1:22; 1 Pet 4:1 ↩
34. 1 Peter 3:18 1 Pet 4:6 ↩
35. 1 Peter 3:18 Or Spirit ↩
36. 1 Peter 3:19 Or whom ↩
37. 1 Peter 3:20 Rom 2:4 ↩
38. 1 Peter 3:20 Gen 6:3, 5, 13f ↩
39. 1 Peter 3:20 Heb 11:7 ↩
40. 1 Peter 3:20 Gen 8:18; 2 Pet 2:5 ↩
41. 1 Peter 3:20 Acts 2:41; 1 Pet 1:9, 22; 2:25; 4:19 ↩
42. 1 Peter 3:21 Acts 16:33; Titus 3:5 ↩
43. 1 Peter 3:21 Heb 9:14; 10:22 ↩
44. 1 Peter 3:21 Or from ↩
45. 1 Peter 3:21 1 Tim 1:5; Heb 13:18; 1 Pet 3:16 ↩
46. 1 Peter 3:21 1 Pet 1:3 ↩
47. 1 Peter 3:22 Mark 16:19 ↩
48. 1 Peter 3:22 Heb 4:14; 6:20 ↩
49. 1 Peter 3:22 Rom 8:38f; Heb 1:6 ↩

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