in your bearing it patiently? But if when you do right and
suffer for it you bear it patiently, this is an acceptable
thing with God.
002:021 And it is to this you were called; because Christ also suffered
on your behalf, leaving you an example so that you should
follow in His steps.
002:022 He never sinned, and no deceitful language was ever heard
from His mouth.
002:023 When He was reviled, He did not answer with reviling;
when He suffered He uttered no threats, but left His wrongs
in the hands of the righteous Judge.
002:024 The burden of our sins He Himself carried in His own body
to the Cross and bore it there, so that we, having died
so far as our sins are concerned, may live righteous lives.
By His wounds yours have been healed.
002:025 For you were straying like lost sheep, but now you have come
back to the Shepherd and Protector of your souls.
003:001 Married women, in the same way, be submissive to your husbands,
so that even if some of them disbelieve the Message, they may,
apart from the Message, be won over by the daily life
of their wives, after watching your daily life--
003:002 so full of reverence, and so blameless!
003:003 Your adornment ought not to be a merely outward thing--one of plaiting
the hair, putting on jewelry, or wearing beautiful dresses.
003:004 Instead of that, it should be a new nature within--
the imperishable ornament of a gentle and peaceful spirit,
which is indeed precious in the sight of God.
003:005 For in ancient times also this was the way the holy women
who set their hopes upon God used to adorn themselves,
being submissive to their husbands.