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and keep a 1goodconscienceso that in the thing in which2you are slandered, those who revile your goodbehavior in Christ will be put to shame.
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For 3it is better, 4ifGod should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is rightratherthan for doing what is wrong.
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For 5Christalsodied for sins6once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might 7bring us to God, having been put to death8in the flesh, but madealive9in the spirit;
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in whichalso He went and madeproclamation to the spirits now in prison,
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who once were disobedient, when the 10patience of God11kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of 12the ark, in which a few, that is, 13eight14persons, were broughtsafelythrough the water.
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15Corresponding to that, baptismnowsaves you-16not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a 17goodconscience-through18the resurrection of JesusChrist,
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19who is at the righthand of God, 20having gone into heaven, 21after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.