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With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.

Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

Therefore subject yourselves to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded!

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and for sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time,

who through him are believing in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

because you have been born again, not from perishable seed but imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

to whom you are drawing near, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious in the sight of God.

And you yourselves, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

who once were not a people, but now are the people of God, the ones who were not shown mercy, but now are shown mercy.

maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in the things in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.

For the will of God is as follows: by doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish people.

Live as free persons, and not using your freedom as a covering for evil, but as slaves of God.

Honor all people, love the community of believers, fear God, honor the king.

For this finds favor, if because of consciousness of God someone endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.

For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if you endure when you do good and suffer for it, this finds favor with God.

but the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is highly valuable in the sight of God.