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not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

For, "He who would love life, And see good days, Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit.

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."

But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. "Don't fear what they fear, neither be troubled."

For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

Because Messiah 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;

Forasmuch then as Messiah suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

For we have spent enough of our past time living in doing the desire of the Goyim, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

For to this end was the Good News preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

If you are insulted for the name of Messiah, blessed are you; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters.

But if one of you suffers for being a Messianic, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

For the time [has come] for judgment to begin at the house of God. If it begins first at us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God?

"If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?"

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.