1 Peter (Nasb)

6 just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord (KURIOUS = MASTER) and you have become her children if you do what is right [b]without being frightened by any fear.

7 You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with [c]someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

THIS IS IMPORTANT BALANCE

SUBMIT IN A CHURCH

8 [d]To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit;

9 not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but [e]giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.

10 For, “THE ONE WHO DESIRES LIFE, TO LOVE AND SEE GOOD DAYS, MUST KEEP HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL AND HIS LIPS FROM SPEAKING DECEIT.

11 “HE MUST TURN AWAY FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD; HE MUST SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT.

12 “FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE TOWARD THE RIGHTEOUS, AND HIS EARS ATTEND TO THEIR PRAYER, BUT THE FACE OF THE LORD IS AGAINST THOSE WHO DO EVIL.”

GOD’S GRACE AND SUFFERING; MAKE JESUS LORD (VS. JUST SAVIOR)

13 Who is [f]there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good?

14 But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you [g]are blessed. AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR [h]INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED,

15 but [i]sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a [j]defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and [k]reverence;

16 [l]and keep a good conscience (IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS HE IS FAITHFUL . . . TO FORGIVE US 1 JOHN 1:9) so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.

17 For it is better, if [m]God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

18 For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the [n]spirit;

19 in [o]which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,

By which Spirit he preached - Through the ministry of Noah. To the spirits in prison - The unholy men before the flood, who were then reserved by the justice of God, as in a prison, till he executed the sentence upon them all; and are now also reserved to the judgment of the great day. 1 Peter 3:19 (AFV) - John Wesley's Notes (bibletools.org)

20 who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the [p]water.

21 Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you—not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God [q]for a good conscience—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

The antitype whereof - The thing typified by the ark, even baptism, now saveth us - That is, through the water of baptism we are saved from the sin which overwhelms the world as a flood: not, indeed, the bare outward sign, but the inward grace; a divine consciousness that both our persons and our actions are accepted through him who died and rose again for us. 1 Peter 3 Commentary - Wesley's Explanatory Notes (biblestudytools.com)