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.

[2:12]  ¹ tn Grk “keeping your conduct good.”

[2:12]  ² tn Grk “the Gentiles,” used here of those who are not God’s people.

[2:12]  ³ tn Grk “in order that in what they malign you.”

[2:12]  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).

[3:9]  ⁵ tn Grk “not returning…but blessing,” continuing the sense of command from the preceding.

[3:9]  ⁶ tn The direct object “others” is omitted but implied in Greek, and must be supplied to suit English style.

[3:20]  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.

[3:20]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “the patience of God waited.”

[3:20]  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.

[4:14]  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.

[4:14]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “the Spirit of glory and of God.”

[4:14]  ¹⁵ sn A quotation taken from Isa 11:2.