1 Peter 2:12

2:12 and maintain good conduct 1  among the non-Christians, 2  so that though 3  they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears. 4 

1 Peter 3:9

3:9 Do not return evil for evil or insult for insult, but instead bless 5  others 6  because you were called to inherit a blessing.

1 Peter 3:20

3:20 after they were disobedient long ago 7  when God patiently waited 8  in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark 9  a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

1 Peter 4:14

4:14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, 10  who is the Spirit of God, 11  rests 12  on you.

1 tn Grk “keeping your conduct good.”

2 tn Grk “the Gentiles,” used here of those who are not God’s people.

3 tn Grk “in order that in what they malign you.”

4 tn Or “when he visits.” Grk “in the day of visitation,” denoting a time when God intervenes directly in human affairs, either for blessing (Luke 1:68, 78; 7:16; 19:44) or for judgment (Isa 10:3; Jer 6:15). This phrase may be a quotation from Isa 10:3, in which case judgment is in view here. But blessing seems to be the point, since part of the motive for good behavior is winning the non-Christian over to the faith (as in 3:1; also apparently in 3:15; cf. Matt 5:16).

5 tn Grk “not returning…but blessing,” continuing the sense of command from the preceding.

6 tn The direct object “others” is omitted but implied in Greek, and must be supplied to suit English style.

9 tn This reflects a Greek participle, literally “having been disobedient formerly,” that refers to the “spirits” in v. 19. Many translations take this as adjectival describing the spirits (“who had once been disobedient”; cf. NASB, NIV, NKJV, NLT, NRSV, TEV), but the grammatical construction strongly favors an adverbial interpretation describing the time of the preaching, as reflected above.

10 tn Grk “the patience of God waited.”

11 tn Grk “in which,” referring to the ark; the referent (the ark) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

13 tc Many mss, some of them important and early ([א] A P 33 81 323 945 1241 1739 pm bo), add καὶ δυνάμεως (kai dunamew"; “and of power”) here. The shorter reading is supported by Ì72 B K L Ψ 049 pm). Although the evidence is evenly divided, the longer reading looks to be an explanatory or liturgical expansion on the text and for this reason should be considered secondary.

14 tn Grk “the Spirit of glory and of God.”

15 sn A quotation taken from Isa 11:2.