1 Peter 3 Geneva Bible (1599)
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 Likewise let the wiues bee subiect to their husbands, that euen they which obey not the worde, may without the worde be wonne by the conuersation of the wiues,
1 ASIMISMO vosotras, mujeres, [sed] sujetas á vuestros maridos; para que también los que no creen á la palabra, sean ganados sin palabra por la conversación de sus mujeres,
1 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,
2 While they beholde your pure conuersation, which is with feare.
2 Considerando vuestra casta conversación, que es en temor.
2 seeing your pure behavior in fear.
3 Whose apparelling, let it not be that outwarde, with broyded heare, and golde put about, or in putting on of apparell:
3 El adorno de las cuales no sea exterior con encrespamiento del cabello, y atavío de oro, ni en compostura de ropas;
3 Let your beauty come not from the outward adorning of braiding your hair, and of wearing gold ornaments or of putting on fine clothing,
4 But let it bee the hidde man of the heart, which consisteth in the incorruption of a meeke and quiet spirite, which is before God a thing much set by.
4 Sino el hombre del corazón que está encubierto, en incorruptible [ornato] de espíritu agradable y pacífico, lo cual es de grande estima delante de Dios.
4 but from the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God’s sight.
5 For euen after this maner in time past did the holy women, which trusted in God, tire them selues, and were subiect to their husbands.
5 Porque así también se ataviaban en el tiempo antiguo aquellas santas mujeres que esperaban en Dios, siendo sujetas á sus maridos:
5 For this is how in the past the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.
6 As Sara obeyed Abraham, and called him Sir: whose daughters ye are, whiles yee doe well, not being afraide of any terrour.
6 Como Sara obedecía á Abraham, llamándole señor; de la cual vosotras sois hechas hijas, haciendo bien, y no sois espantadas de ningún pavor.
6 So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are if you do well and are not put in fear by any terror.
7 Likewise ye husbands, dwel with them as men of knowledge, giuing honour vnto the woman, as vnto the weaker vessell, euen as they which are heires together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not interrupted.
7 Vosotros maridos, semejantemente, habitad con ellas según ciencia, dando honor á la mujer como á vaso más frágil, y como á herederas juntamente de la gracia de la vida; para que vuestras oraciones no sean impedidas.
7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
8 Finally, be ye all of one minde: one suffer with another: loue as brethren: bee pitifull: bee courteous,
8 Y finalmente, sed todos de un mismo corazón, compasivos, amándoos fraternalmente, misericordiosos, amigables;
8 Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
9 Not rendring euil for euill, neither rebuke for rebuke: but contrarywise blesse, knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should be heires of blessing.
9 No volviendo mal por mal, ni maldición por maldición, sino antes por el contrario, bendiciendo; sabiendo que vosotros sois llamados para que poseáis bendición en herencia.
9 not rendering evil for evil or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.
10 For if any man long after life, and to see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euill, and his lippes that they speake no guile.
10 Porque el que quiere amar la vida, y ver días buenos, refrene su lengua de mal, y sus labios no hablen engaño;
10 For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
11 Let him eschew euil, and do good: let him seeke peace, and follow after it.
11 Apártase del mal, y haga bien; busque la paz, y sígala.
11 Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.
12 For the eyes of the Lord are ouer the righteous, and his eares are open vnto their prayers: and the face of the Lord is against them that do euil.
12 Porque los ojos del Señor están sobre los justos, y sus oídos [atentos] á sus oraciones: pero el rostro del Señor está sobre aquellos que hacen mal.
12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
13 And who is it that will harme you, if ye follow that which is good?
13 ¿Y quién es aquel que os podrá dañar, si vosotros seguís el bien?
13 Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?
14 Notwithstanding blessed are ye, if ye suffer for righteousnes sake. Yea, feare not their feare, neither be troubled.
14 Mas también si alguna cosa padecéis por hacer bien, [sois] bienaventurados. Por tanto, no temáis por el temor de ellos, ni seáis turbados;
14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”
15 But sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready alwayes to giue an answere to euery man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekenesse and reuerence,
15 Sino santificad al Señor Dios en vuestros corazones, y [estad] siempre aparejados para responder con mansedumbre y reverencia á cada uno que os demande razón de la esperanza que hay en vosotros:
15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
16 Hauing a good coscience, that whe they speake euill of you as of euill doers, they may be ashamed, which slander your good conuersation in Christ.
16 Teniendo buena conciencia, para que en lo que murmuran de vosotros como de malhechores, sean confundidos los que blasfeman vuestra buena conversación en Cristo.
16 having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
17 For it is better (if the will of God be so) that ye suffer for well doing, then for euil doing.
17 Porque mejor es que padezcáis haciendo bien, si la voluntad de Dios así lo quiere, que haciendo mal.
17 For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing what is right than for doing evil.
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sinnes, the iust for the vniust, that he might bring vs to God, and was put to death concerning the flesh, but was quickened by the spirit.
18 Porque también Cristo padeció una vez por los pecados, el justo por los injustos, para llevarnos á Dios, siendo á la verdad muerto en la carne, pero vivificado en espíritu;
18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,
19 By the which hee also went, and preached vnto the spirits that are in prison.
19 En el cual también fué y predicó á los espíritus encarcelados;
19 in whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,
20 Which were in time passed disobedient, when once the long suffering of God abode in the dayes of Noe, while the Arke was preparing, wherein fewe, that is, eight soules were saued in the water.
20 Los cuales en otro tiempo fueron desobedientes, cuando una vez esperaba la paciencia de Dios en los días de Noé, cuando se aparejaba el arca; en la cual pocas, es á saber, ocho personas fueron salvas por agua.
20 who before were disobedient when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
21 Whereof the baptisme that nowe is, answering that figure, (which is not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but a confident demaunding which a good conscience maketh to God) saueth vs also by the resurrection of Iesus Christ,
21 A la figura de la cual el bautismo que ahora corresponde nos salva (no quitando las inmundicias de la carne, sino [como] demanda de una buena conciencia delante de Dios,) por la resurrección de Jesucristo:
21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
22 Which is at the right hand of God, gone into heauen, to whom the Angels, and Powers, and might are subiect.
22 El cual está á la diestra de Dios, habiendo subido al cielo; estando á él sujetos los ángeles, y las potestades, y virtudes.
22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Colossians 3:18; Ephesians 5:33; Ephesians 5:22–24; 1 Corinthians 11:3; Titus 2:3–6
- 2 1 Peter 2:12; 1 Peter 1:15; Philippians 1:27; Ephesians 5:33; 2 Peter 3:11
- 3 1 Timothy 2:9–10; Romans 12:2; Isaiah 3:18–24; Titus 2:3–15; Isaiah 61:10
- 4 Colossians 3:12; 1 Samuel 16:7; Matthew 11:29; Romans 2:29; Titus 3:2
- 5 1 Timothy 5:5; Titus 2:3–4; Luke 8:2–3; Proverbs 31:30; 1 Timothy 2:15
- 6 Genesis 18:12; Romans 9:7–9; Daniel 3:16–18; Isaiah 57:11; Acts 4:19
- 7 Colossians 3:19; Genesis 2:23–24; Ephesians 5:25–28; Matthew 19:3–9; 1 Corinthians 7:3
- 8 Romans 12:10; Ephesians 4:31–5:2; 1 Peter 1:22; Philippians 4:8–9; James 3:17
- 9 Romans 12:17; Proverbs 20:22; Romans 12:14; Romans 12:19–21; 1 Thessalonians 5:15
- 10 Psalm 34:12–16; James 1:26; 1 Peter 2:22; 1 Peter 2:1; Revelation 14:5
- 11 Matthew 5:9; Hebrews 12:14; Psalm 34:14; Romans 14:19; Colossians 3:15
- 12 Psalm 34:15–16; John 9:31; Proverbs 15:29; Proverbs 15:3; 2 Chronicles 7:15
- 13 Proverbs 16:7; Romans 8:28; 1 Thessalonians 5:15; 3 John 11; Psalm 38:20
- 14 Matthew 10:28; 1 Peter 2:19–20; Matthew 5:10–12; Isaiah 41:10–14; Isaiah 8:12–13
- 15 Colossians 4:6; 2 Timothy 2:25–26; Luke 21:14–15; 1 Peter 3:2; Matthew 10:18–20
- 16 1 Peter 2:12; 1 Peter 2:15; Hebrews 13:18; Titus 2:8; Matthew 5:11
- 17 1 Peter 3:14; 1 Peter 4:19; Matthew 26:39; 1 Peter 2:15; 1 Peter 2:20
- 18 Hebrews 9:28; Hebrews 9:26; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 4:6; Titus 2:14
- 19 1 Peter 4:6; Isaiah 61:1; Isaiah 42:7; Isaiah 49:9; Nehemiah 9:30
- 20 Hebrews 11:7; 2 Peter 2:5; Genesis 6:3; Genesis 6:5; Genesis 8:18
- 21 Mark 16:16; Ezekiel 36:25–26; Galatians 3:27; Acts 22:16; Acts 2:38
- 22 Hebrews 9:24; Hebrews 12:2; Ephesians 1:20–21; Hebrews 10:12; Mark 16:19
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
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