1 Peter 3:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

having a good conscience; that, wherein {G1722} ye are spoken against, {G5613} {G2555} they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

μετά πραΰτητος καί φόβου: ⋄Συνείδησιν ἔχοντες ἀγαθήν· ἵνα, ἐν ᾧ καταλαλοῦσιν ὑμῶν, ὡς κακοποιων, καταισχυνθῶσιν οἱ ἐπηρεάζοντες ὑμῶν τὴν ἀγαθὴν ἐν Χριστῷ ἀναστροφήν.

Transliteration

with prautētos and phobou: Syneidēsin echontes agathēn; so-that, in what they-katalalousin of-you, as of-kakopoiōn, may-be-kataischynthōsin the ones epēreazontes of-you the agathēn in Christō anastrophēn.

Grammar Details

*meta*: preposition + genitive - with
*prautētos*: genitive, feminine, singular - gentleness/meekness
*phobou*: genitive, masculine, singular - fear/reverence
*syneidēsin*: accusative, feminine, singular - conscience
*echontes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having
*agathēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - good
*hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
*en hō*: in which/wherein
*katalalousin*: present active indicative, 3rd plural - they speak against/slander
*hymōn*: genitive, plural - of you/your
*hōs*: comparative particle - as/like
*kakopoiōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - evil-doers/wrongdoers
*kataischynthōsin*: aorist passive subjunctive, 3rd plural - they may be ashamed/put to shame
*epēreazontes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - reviling/mistreating
*en*: preposition + dative - in
*Christō*: dative, masculine, singular - Christ
*anastrophēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - conduct/behavior/manner of life

Word Meanings

*prautētos*: gentleness/meekness/mildness
*phobou*: fear/reverence/respect
*syneidēsin*: conscience/moral consciousness/awareness
*agathēn*: good/worthy/beneficial
*katalalousin*: they speak against/they slander/they defame
*kakopoiōn*: evil-doers/wrongdoers/criminals
*kataischynthōsin*: they may be ashamed/they may be put to shame/they may be disgraced
*epēreazontes*: reviling/mistreating/threatening
*Christō*: Christ/Messiah/Anointed One
*anastrophēn*: conduct/behavior/manner of life/lifestyle

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Pet 2:12 : 12 having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein {G3739} they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Heb 13:18 : 18 Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
1 Pet 2:15 : 15 For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
1 Pet 2:19 : 19 For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully.
Matt 5:11 : 11 Blessed are ye when [men] shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Acts 24:16 : 16 {G1161} {G1722} Herein I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.
1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:
1 Pet 3:21 : 21 which also after a true likeness doth now save you, [even] baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
1 Pet 3:1-2 : 1 In like manner, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; 2 beholding your chaste behavior [coupled] with fear.
1 Tim 1:19 : 19 holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith:
2 Tim 1:3 : 3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers in a pure conscience, how unceasing is my remembrance of thee in my supplications, night and day
Titus 2:8 : 8 sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.
Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Rom 9:1 : 1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2 Cor 4:2 : 2 but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

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13And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good?
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