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1 Peter 3
Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation
1 In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives, CCC
2 Considering your chaste conversation with fear. CCC
3 Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel: CCC
4 But the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit which is rich in the sight of God. CCC
5 For after this manner heretofore, the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: CCC
6 As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, doing well and not fearing any disturbance. CCC
7 Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered. CCC
8 And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble:
9 Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing. CCC · Fathers
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 decline from evil and do good: Let him seek after peace and pursue it:
12 Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their prayers but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil things.
13 And who is he that can hurt you, if you be zealous of good?
14 But if also you suffer any thing for justice’ sake, blessed are ye. And be not afraid of their fear: and be not troubled.
15 But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you.
16 But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience: that whereas they speak evil of you, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
17 For it is better doing well (if such be the will of God) to suffer than doing ill.
18 Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,
19 In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison:
20 Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. CCC · Fathers
21 Whereunto baptism, being of the like form, now saveth you also: not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but, the examination of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. CCC
22 Who is on the right hand of God, swallowing down death that we might be made heirs of life everlasting: being gone into heaven, the angels and powers and virtues being made subject to him.
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- CCC 2204 “The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called…”
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- CCC 2204 “The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called…”
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- CCC 2204 “The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called…”
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- CCC 2204 “The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called…”
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- CCC 2204 “The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called…”
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- CCC 2204 “The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called…”
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- CCC 2204 “The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called…”
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- CCC 1669 “Sacramentals derive from the baptismal priesthood: every baptized person is called to be a "blessing," and to bless. Hence lay people may…”
“love what He loved, keeping ourselves from all unrighteousness, covetousness, love of money, evil speaking, false witness; "not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing,”
Quoted in Letter to the Philippians, St. Polycarp of Smyrna (early 2nd century), Chapter II. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 845 “To reunite all his children, scattered and led astray by sin, the Father willed to call the whole of humanity together into…”
- CCC 1219 “The Church has seen in Noah's ark a prefiguring of salvation by Baptism, for by it "a few, that is, eight persons,…”
“Noah preached repentance, and as many as listened to him were saved.”
Quoted in First Letter to the Corinthians, St. Clement of Rome (c. AD 96), Chapter VII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 845 “To reunite all his children, scattered and led astray by sin, the Father willed to call the whole of humanity together into…”
- CCC 1094 “It is on this harmony of the two Testaments that the Paschal catechesis of the Lord is built, and then, that of…”
- CCC 1794 “A good and pure conscience is enlightened by true faith, for charity proceeds at the same time "from a pure heart and…”
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