having your conduct ornamental among the Gentiles: that, whereas they malign you as wicked doers, they may, being eye-witnesses of your good works, glorify God in the day when he visits them.

as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for wicked practices; but as being servants of God.

For what glory would there be, if committing faults, and being buffeted, ye suffered patiently? but if, when ye behave well, yet suffer, ye bear it patiently, this is graciously accepted of God.

who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead unto sins, might live unto righteousness; "by whose stripes, [even] his, ye were healed."

being eye-witnesses of your chaste behaviour with timidity.

For so in times of old the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands;

Ye husbands, in like manner dwell with them discreetly, putting respect on the dear woman as being the weaker vessel, and as co-heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers may meet no interruption.

who is at the right hand of God, gone into heaven, angels and dominations and powers being put in subjection under him.

not as domineering over your allotted congregations, but as being examples of the flock.