1   Likewise ^{note note} let the wiues bee subiect to their husbandes, ^note that euen they which obey not the worde, may without the worde be wonne by the conuersation of the wiues,

2   While they beholde your pure conuersation, which is with feare.

3    ^{note note}Whose apparelling, let it not be that outwarde, with broyded heare, and golde put about, or in putting on of apparell:

4   But let it bee the ^note hidde man of the heart, which consisteth in the incorruption of a meeke and quiet spirite, which is ^note before God a thing much set by.

5    ^noteFor euen after this maner in time past did the holy women, which trusted in God, tire them selues, and were subiect to their husbands.

6   As Sara obeyed Abraham, and ^note called him Sir: whose daughters ye are, whiles yee doe well, ^note not being afraide of any terrour.

7    ^{note note}Likewise ye husbands, ^note dwel with them as men of ^note knowledge, ^note giuing ^note honour vnto Suffer for righteousnesse. the woman, as vnto the weaker ^note vessell, ^note euen as they which are heires together of the ^note grace of life, ^note that your prayers be not interrupted.

8    ^noteFinally, be ye all of one minde: one suffer with another: loue as brethren: bee pitifull: bee courteous,

9    ^{note note}Not rendring euil for euill, neither rebuke for rebuke: but contrarywise blesse, ^note knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should be heires of blessing.

10    ^{note note}For if any man long after life, and to ^note see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euill, and his lippes that they speake no guile.

11    ^noteLet him eschew euil, and do good: let him seeke peace, and folow after it.

12   For the eyes of the Lord are ouer the righteous, & his eares are open vnto their prayers: and the ^note face of the Lord is against them that do euil.

13    ^noteAnd who is it that will harme you, if ye folow that which is good?

14    ^noteNotwithstanding blessed are ye, if ye suffer for righteousnes sake. ^noteYea, ^note feare not their ^note feare, neither be troubled.

15   But ^note sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts: ^note and be ready alwayes to giue an answere to euery man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekenesse and reuerence,

16   Hauing a good c&obar;science, þt; wh&ebar; they speake euill of you as of euill doers, they may be ashamed, which slander your good conuersation in Christ.

17    ^noteFor it is better (if the will of God be so) that ye suffer for well doing, then for euil doing.

18    ^{note note}For Christ also hath once suffered for sinnes, ^note the iust for the vniust, ^note that he might

To cease from sinne. bring vs to God, ^note and was put to death concerning the ^note flesh, but was quickened by the spirit.

19    ^noteBy ^note the which hee also went, and preached vnto the ^note spirits that are in prison.

20   Which were in time passed disobedient, when ^note once the long suffering of God abode in the dayes of ^note Noe, while the Arke was preparing, wherein fewe, that is, eight ^note soules were saued in the water.

21    ^noteWhereof the baptisme that nowe is, answering that figure, (which is not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but a confident demaunding which a good conscience maketh to ^note God) saueth vs also ^note by the resurrection of Iesus Christ,

22   Which is at the right hande of God, gone into heauen, to whome the Angels, and Powers, and might are subiect.

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