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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 3
Husbands and wives should honor each other—Saints should live by
gospel standards—Christ preached unto the spirits in prison.
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1 LIKEWISE, ye
awives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that,
if any bobey not the word, they also may without the word
be won by the cconversation of the wives;
2 While they behold your
achaste bconversation coupled with
fear.
3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward
aadorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or
of putting on of apparel;
4 But let it be the hidden man of the
heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the
aornament of a ameek and quiet
spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
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5 For after this manner in the old time the
holy awomen also, who btrusted in God,
adorned themselves, being cin subjection unto their own
husbands:
6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him
lord: whose adaughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and
are not afraid with any bamazement.
7 Likewise, ye ahusbands,
dwell with them according to bknowledge, giving
chonour unto the dwife, as unto the
weaker vessel, and as being eheirs together of the grace of
life; that your fprayers be not hindered.
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8 Finally, be ye all of
aone minda, having
bcompassion one of another, love as
cbrethren, be dpitiful, be
ecourteous:
9 Not arendering
bevil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise
blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a
cblessing.
10 For he that will love life, and see good
days, let him arefrain his btongue from
evil, and his lips that they speak no cguile:
11 Let him aeschew evil, and
do good; let him seek bpeace, and censue
it.
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8a be ye all of one mind This
is the oneness wherein we may become one even as Christ and God the Father
are one. That is, this 'oneness' is not that of becoming 'one in being' but
it is becoming one in faith and in our mind in the truth and righteousness of
the gospel of Christ and God. This is that 'unity of the faith' which binds
man to God and heaven to earth that we might be one in him of that same mind
set and understanding as is God.
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12 For the aeyes of the Lord
are over the brighteous, and his ears are
open unto their cprayers: but the face of the Lord
is against them that do eevil.
13 And who is he that will harm you, if
ye be afollowers of that which is good?
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14 But and if ye asuffer for
brighteousness' sake, chappy are
ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
15 But asanctify the Lord
God in your hearts: and be ready always to give
ban answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the
chope that is in you with dmeekness and
efear:
16 Having a good
aconscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of
evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good
bconversation in Christ.
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17 For it is better, if the will of God
be so, that ye asuffer for well doing, than for evil
doing.
18 For Christ also hath once
asuffered for sins, the just for the
bunjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to
cdeath in the flesh, but quickened by the
dSpirit:
19 By which also he went and
apreached unto the bspirits in
cprison;
20 aWhich sometime were
bdisobedient, when once the
clongsuffering of God waited in the days of
dNoah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is,
eight souls were esaved by fwater.
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21 The like figure whereunto even
abaptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the
filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward
Goda,) by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ:
22 Who is gone into aheaven,
and is on the right hand of God; bangels and
cauthorities and powers being made subject unto him.
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21a whereunto even baptism doth
also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the
answer of a good conscience toward God Now Peter is speaking as of
those in spirit prison who died in the day of Noah, that they would also have
such baptism for the dead as spoken of by Paul in 2nd Corinthians 15, but not
for the purpose of putting away from them the filth of the flesh for they
were now but spirits. For unto them baptism was a matter of following the
commands of God, that all must be baptised as was the case of Jesus Christ
unto the fulfilling of all righteousness and having thereby 'a good conscience
toward and or before God', having obeyed in all things the design of His plan
for the salvation of man.
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