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because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

but let the rich boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

Blessed is the one who endures trials, because when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face in a mirror.

Not many should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we will receive a stricter judgment.

You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

because you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.

because you have been born again—not of perishable seed but of imperishable—through the living and enduring word of God.

Submit to every human authority because of the Lord, whether to the emperor as the supreme authority

For it brings favor if, because of a consciousness of God, someone endures grief from suffering unjustly.

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.

because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteousand his ears are open to their prayer.But the face of the Lord is againstthose who do what is evil.

Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same understanding—because the one who suffers in the flesh is finished with sin—

If you are ridiculed for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. All of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because

casting all your cares on him, because he cares about you.