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    "chapter": 3
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "1PE-3:1",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.1",
        "text": "In like manner, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your won husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "1PE-3:2",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.2",
        "text": "beholding your chaste behavior [coupled] with fear."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "1PE-3:3",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.3",
        "text": "Whose [adorning] let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "1PE-3:4",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.4",
        "text": "but [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [apparel] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "1PE-3:5",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.5",
        "text": "For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "1PE-3:6",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.6",
        "text": "as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "1PE-3:7",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.7",
        "text": "Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "1PE-3:8",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.8",
        "text": "Finally, [be] ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "1PE-3:9",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.9",
        "text": "not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "1PE-3:10",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.10",
        "text": "For, He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile:"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "1PE-3:11",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.11",
        "text": "And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and pursue it."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "1PE-3:12",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.12",
        "text": "For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears unto their supplication: But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "1PE-3:13",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.13",
        "text": "And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good?"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "1PE-3:14",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.14",
        "text": "But even if ye should suffer for righteousness` sake, blessed [are ye:] and fear not their fear, neither be troubled;"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "1PE-3:15",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.15",
        "text": "but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: [being] ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "1PE-3:16",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.16",
        "text": "having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "1PE-3:17",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.17",
        "text": "For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "1PE-3:18",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.18",
        "text": "Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "1PE-3:19",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.19",
        "text": "in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "1PE-3:20",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.20",
        "text": "that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "1PE-3:21",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.21",
        "text": "which also after a true likeness doth now save you, [even] baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "1PE-3:22",
        "verseRef": "1PE.3.22",
        "text": "who is one the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him."
      }
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