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And let your behavior be decorous before all men; so that they who utter evil speeches against you, may see your good actions, and may praise God in the day of trial.

For so is the pleasure of God, that by your good deeds ye may stop the mouth of the foolish, who know not God:

as free men, yet not like men who make their freedom a cloak for their wickedness, but as the servants of God.

Honor all men; love your brethren; fear God; and honor kings.

For there is favor before God for them who, for the sake of a good conscience, endure sorrows that come upon them wrongfully.

But they who endure afflictions on account of their offences, what praise have they? But if, when ye do well, they vex you, and ye endure it; then great is your praise with God.

But adorn yourselves in the hidden person of the heart, with a mild and uncorrupted spirit, an ornament that is precious before God.

For so also the holy women of old, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, and were subject to their husbands:

For it is profitable to you, that ye suffer evil while ye do good deeds, if this should be the pleasure of God; and not, while ye do evil deeds.

For the Messiah also once died for our sins, the righteous for sinners; that he might bring you to God. And he died in body, but lived in spirit.

which were formerly disobedient, in the days of Noah, when the long suffering of God commanded an ark to be made, in hope of their repentance; and eight souls only entered into it, and were kept alive in the waters.

And ye also, by a like figure, are made alive by baptism, (not when ye wash your bodies from filth, but when ye confess God with a pure conscience,) and by the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah;

who is taken up to heaven, and is on the right hand of God, and angels, and authorities, and powers, are subject to him.

2 that he may no longer be alive to the lusts of men, while he is in the body, but [fn] to do the pleasure of God.

who must give account to God, who is to judge the living and the dead.

For on this account the announcement is made also to the dead, that they may be judged as persons in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.

And let each of you minister to his associates the gift which he hath received from God; as being good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Whoever will speak, let him speak as the word of God: and whoever will minister, as of the ability that God hath given him: so that in all ye do, God may be glorified, through Jesus the Messiah; to whom belongeth glory, and honor, for ever and ever. Amen.

And if ye are reproached on account of the name of the Messiah, happy are ye: for the glorious Spirit of God resteth upon you.

But if he suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on account of this name.