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For you have tasted that Adonai is good .

you yourselves, as living stone s, are being built into a spiritual house to be cohanim set apart for God to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to him through Yeshua the Messiah.

But you are a chosen people, the King's cohanim , a holy nation , a people for God to possess! Why? In order for you to declare the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

For the sake of the Lord, submit yourselves to every human authority — whether to the emperor as being supreme,

For it is God's will that your doing good should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.

Submit as people who are free, but not letting your freedom serve as an excuse for evil; rather, submit as God's slaves.

For it is a grace when someone, because he is mindful of God, bears up under the pain of undeserved punishment.

For what credit is there in bearing up under a beating you deserve for doing something wrong? But if you bear up under punishment, even though you have done what is right, God looks on it with favor.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the stake , so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness — by his wounds you were healed .

For you used to be like sheep gone astray , but now you have turned to the Shepherd, who watches over you.

not repaying evil with evil or insult with insult, but, on the contrary, with blessing. For it is to this that you have been called, so that you may receive a blessing.

For "Whoever wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit,

For Adonai keeps his eyes on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers; but the face of Adonai is against those who do evil things."

For who will hurt you if you become zealots for what is good?

But even if you do suffer for being righteous, you are blessed! Moreover, don't fear what they fear or be disturbed ,

For if God has in fact willed that you should suffer, it is better that you suffer for doing what is good than for doing what is evil.

For the Messiah himself died for sins, once and for all, a righteous person on behalf of unrighteous people, so that he might bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but brought to life by the Spirit;

Therefore, since the Messiah suffered physically, you too are to arm yourselves with the same attitude. For whoever has suffered physically is finished with sin,

For you have spent enough time already living the way the pagans want you to live — in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, wild parties and forbidden idol-worship.

If you are being insulted because you bear the name of the Messiah, how blessed you are! For the Spirit of the Sh'khinah, that is, the Spirit of God, is resting on you!