1 Peter 2:16-25

16 Be free men, and yet do not make your freedom an excuse for base conduct, but be God's bondservants.
17 Honour every one. Love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the Emperor.
18 Household servants, be submissive to your masters, and show them the utmost respect--not only if they are kind and thoughtful, but also if they are unreasonable.
19 For it is an acceptable thing with God, if, from a sense of duty to Him, a man patiently submits to wrong, when treated unjustly.
20 If you do wrong and receive a blow for it, what credit is there in your bearing it patiently? But if when you do right and suffer for it you bear it patiently, this is an acceptable thing with God.
21 And it is to this you were called; because Christ also suffered on your behalf, leaving you an example so that you should follow in His steps.
22 He never sinned, and no deceitful language was ever heard from His mouth.
23 When He was reviled, He did not answer with reviling; when He suffered He uttered no threats, but left His wrongs in the hands of the righteous Judge.
24 The burden of our sins He Himself carried in His own body to the Cross and bore it there, so that we, having died so far as our sins are concerned, may live righteous lives. By His wounds yours have been healed.
25 For you were straying like lost sheep, but now you have come back to the Shepherd and Protector of your souls.

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