whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory --

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. "Don't fear what they fear, neither be troubled."

They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God?