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8 Finally, all of you be of one mind, sympathetic, lovers of your fellow believers, compassionate, and modest in your opinion of yourselves.
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Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
9 Don't pay back evil for evil or insult for insult. Instead, give blessing in return. You were called to do this so that you might inherit a blessing.
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Do not repay evil for evil or abuse for abuse; but, on the contrary, repay with a blessing. It is for this that you were called—that you might inherit a blessing.
10 For those who want to love life and see good days should keep their tongue from evil speaking and their lips from speaking lies.
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For "Those who desire life and desire to see good days, let them keep their tongues from evil and their lips from speaking deceit;
11 They should shun evil and do good; seek peace and chase after it.
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let them turn away from evil and do good; let them seek peace and pursue it.
12 The Lord's eyes are on the righteous and his ears are open to their prayers. But the Lord cannot tolerate those who do evil.
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For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."
13 Who will harm you if you are zealous for good?
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Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good?
14 But happy are you, even if you suffer because of righteousness! Don't be terrified or upset by them.
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But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated,
15 Instead, regard Christ as holy in your hearts. Whenever anyone asks you to speak of your hope, be ready to defend it.
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but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you;
16 Yet do this with respectful humility, maintaining a good conscience. Act in this way so that those who malign your good lifestyle in Christ may be ashamed when they slander you.
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yet do it with gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame.
17 It is better to suffer for doing good (if this could possibly be God's will) than for doing evil.
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For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God's will, than to suffer for doing evil.
18 Christ himself suffered on account of sins, once for all, the righteous one on behalf of the unrighteous. He did this in order to bring you into the presence of God. Christ was put to death as a human, but made alive by the Spirit.
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For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,
19 And it was by the Spirit that he went to preach to the spirits in prison.
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in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison,
20 In the past, these spirits were disobedient—when God patiently waited during the time of Noah. Noah built an ark in which a few (that is, eight) lives were rescued through water.
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who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.
21 Baptism is like that. It saves you now—not because it removes dirt from your body but because it is the mark of a good conscience toward God. Your salvation comes through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
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And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
22 who is at God's right side. Now that he has gone into heaven, he rules over all angels, authorities, and powers.
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who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.
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