For you, then, that believe, is the preciousness; but for those who do not believe, A stone which the builders rejected, The same has become the head stone of the corner,

In the same way you wives must be submissive to your own husbands; so that if some of them will not believe the message, they may apart from the message be won over by the behavior of their wives,

In the same way you husbands live with your wives, according to knowledge, honoring your wife as of the weaker sex, yet as an heir with yourself of the grace of life; so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Since, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, do you also ever arm yourselves with the same mind (because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin),

They are astonished at this, that you do not run into the same excesses of profligacy as they do; and they speak evil of you.

Do not think it strange, beloved, that a fiery ordeal has come to test you, as though some surprising thing had befallen you.

Resist him, standing firm in the faith, knowing well that the same afflictions are being accomplished in your brothers that are in the world.