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you who then were "not a people, but now are the people" of God; "the one not pitied then but now pitied." Hos. 1:6, 9 2:1, 23

having your behavior good among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers; by observing your good works, they may glorify God in a day of visitation.

because so is the will of God, doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish men;

as free, and not having freedom as a cover of evil, but as slaves of God;

honor all, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

For this is a grace, if because of conscience toward God anyone bears grief, suffering unjustly.

For what glory is it if you patiently endure while sinning and being buffeted? But if you are suffering while doing good, and patiently endure, this is a grace from God.

but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of the meek and quiet spirit, which is of great value before God.

For so once indeed the holy women who were hoping on God adorned themselves, submitting themselves to their own husbands,

But sanctify" Isa. 8:12, 13 the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give an answer to everyone asking you a reason concerning the hope in you, with meekness and fear,

For it is better, if the will of God wills it , to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

Because even Christ once suffered concerning sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God; indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;

to disobeying ones, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, an ark having been prepared, into which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

Which antitype now also saves us, baptism (not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

who going into Heaven is at the right of God, the angels, and authorities, and powers being subjected to Him).

for him no longer to live in the lusts of men, but to live the remaining time in the flesh in the will of God.

For to this end also the gospel was preached to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but might live according to God in the Spirit.

each one as he received a gift, ministering it to yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

If anyone speaks, let it be as the words of God; if anyone ministers, as by strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to whom is the glory and the might to the ages of the ages. Amen.

If you are reviled in the name of Christ, you are blessed, because "the Spirit of God and of glory rests on you." Truly, according to them, He is blasphemed; but according to you, He is glorified. Isa. 11:2