1 Peter 3                                                                                                     

1 Peter 3:1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning 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 ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

• Husbands to be considerate to their wives

8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

• Be kind and compassionate.
• Have a zeal to do good.

9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

• Guide means deceitful and cunning.
• You can't speak the sweet words of God with a mouth that is full of guile.
• To ensure means to work at it.
• Don't be lazy.

10 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:

11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

• Don't ever forget this verse.
• If you have a zeal to do good, God's eyes are over you and He hears your prayers.

13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?

• Our Father is watching over those who seek to do good.
• We should have pity on those who would harm one of God's righteous children.
• You are under the protection of the most powerful entity in the universe, that is to say your Father.

14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

• How do you do that?
• Study His Word, Ask God for Wisdom to help others

16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

• Suffering, according to the will of God.

18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

• He talking about the many member body

19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

• Shortly after the crucifixion, Jesus went to those that had died before He paid the price on the cross.
  Why? To offer them the same opportunity for salvation that you and I have, today.
• Christ went back and preached to those that pass before the Kenites crucified Him. 
• Left side of the Gulf In Heaven (Luke 16)

20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

• Jesus went and preached unto the spirits in prison; longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah

21 The like figure 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,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

 

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

 

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25