Chapter 3
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3:1 In the same way, wives be subject to your own husbands, so that if any husband refuses to be persuaded by the word, he will be won through his wife’s behavior instead of talk. 2 He will have witnessed the pure and deep respect of your behavior towards him. 3 He will not be persuaded by any external braiding of hair and wearing of gold or putting on worldly garments, 4 but rather by the hidden self of the heart, inside of an indestructible spirit, gentle and peaceful, something that is very costly and of great value inside the presence of God. 5 For in this way also at one time devoted women hoping into God ordered themselves, submitting themselves to their own husbands. 6 In the same way Sarah listened intently to Abraham, calling him lord, of whom you have become children, doing good and not fearing any dismay. 7 In the same way, husbands, live together with your wives, knowing them as a weaker vessel. Give them full honor, since you share fully together as heirs of the grace of life, and so that your prayers would not be blocked. • 8 Now, this is the goal and completion: let all be one mind, sharing the same passion, loving as brothers and sisters, tenderhearted, humble, 9 not repaying evil against evil or insult against insult. On the contrary, speak good words, because you were called into blessing, that you should inherit good-speaking and blessing. 10 “For the one who desires to love life and to see good days, let him restrain the tongue from evil speaking and the lips from speaking deceit. 11 Let him also turn away from evil and let him do good. Let him seek peace and let him pursue it. 12 Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just and His ears into their prayer. The presence of the Lord, however, is against those who do evil” (Psalm 34:12-16). 13 And who would treat you badly, if you are zealous for that which is good? 14 But if you should suffer through just innocence, you are happy. And you should not be afraid of their threats, neither should you be troubled. • 15 Let the Lord Christ, however, be devoted inside of your hearts, and be ready always to speak to all in defense of the hope inside of you, yet with gentleness and fear. • 16 Possess a good consciousness so that when they speak against you, reviling your good manner of life inside of Christ, they would be ashamed. 17 For as you desire God’s desire, it is better to suffer for doing good rather than for doing wrong. • 18 For Christ also suffered once all around sins, the justly innocent for the unjust, so that He might bring you to connect with God. He was put to death in the flesh but was made alive in the Spirit. 19 During that time He also went into prison and preached to spirits, 20 those who at one time had refused to be persuaded. This was when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, as he prepared the ark in which a few, that is eight souls, were brought safely through water. • 21 This metaphor also prefigures immersion now saving you, not in putting away any dirtiness of flesh, but in the response of a good consciousness into God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who is inside of the right hand of God, having gone into heaven where angels, authorities, and powers are subject to Him. |
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| • Kingdom: The goal of the Gospel and the completion of Salvation is Christian Community, sharing all together, loving one another, speaking good grace into one another, the revelation of the Father forever. Christian Community is the beginning of the Kingdom, out from which proceeds God just being Himself inside all creation. • Ruling Verse 8: We have arrived when we love one another as brothers and sisters, of Truth, for our love for one another is the Completion of Jesus. • Speak Christ: We speak the good words of Christ our only life as all blessing into one another. Indeed, this is our inheritance, that we might possess from each other the blessing of good speaking, life forevermore (see Psalm 133). • Ruling Verses 8 & 7: Christ Jesus devoted inside of our hearts is His devotion through us as Love for one another, Jesus proven faithful and True. Our devotion in return, then, is to speak our hope, that Jesus makes us to be just like Himself. • Ruling Verse 6: Jesus has carried us already into pure Devotion to God, with our hearts cleansed from an evil consciousness. Never do we think “good versus evil,” for the Goodness of God is all we know. • Covenant: Jesus shares all that He is with us, including a life given for the sake of His Church, to bring her to the Father. |