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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 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;

Forasmuch then as Christ 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 Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

For to this end was the gospel 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 Christ, 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 Christian, 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 gospel of God?

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

Tend 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 Jesus Christ.

For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

For thus will be richly supplied to you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.