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For so is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as slaves of God.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endures griefs, suffering wrongfully.

For what glory is it, if, when you sin, and are buffeted [for it], you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well, and suffer [for it], you shall take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

but [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [apparel] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

For after this manner previously the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

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

Because Christ 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;

that previously were disobedient, when the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

which also after a true likeness does 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;

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the desires of men, but to the will of God.

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

according to as each has received a gift, serving [with] it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

if any man speaks, [speaking] as it were oracles of God; if any man serves, [serving] as of the strength which God supplies: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed [are you]; because the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God rests on you.

but if [a man suffers] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this name.

For the time [has come] for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if [it begins] first at us, what [shall be] the end of those that do not obey the gospel of God?

Therefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing to a faithful Creator.