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Your life amidst the Gentiles must be beyond reproach; decried as malefactors, you must let them see, from your honourable behaviour, what you are; they will praise God for you, when his time comes to have mercy on them.✻ (1 Peter 2, 12)
For love of the Lord, then, bow to every kind of human authority; to the king, who enjoys the chief power, (1 Peter 2, 13)
To silence, by honest living, the ignorant chatter of fools; that is what God expects of you. (1 Peter 2, 15)
Free men, but the liberty you enjoy is not to be made a pretext for wrong-doing; it is to be used in God’s service. (1 Peter 2, 16)
If you do wrong and are punished for it, your patience is nothing to boast of; it is the patience of the innocent sufferer that wins credit in God’s sight. (1 Peter 2, 20)
Indeed, you are engaged to this by the call of Christ; he suffered for our sakes, and left you his own example; you were to follow in his footsteps. (1 Peter 2, 21)
So, on the cross, his own body took the weight of our sins; we were to become dead to our sins, and live for holiness; it was his wounds that healed you.✻ (1 Peter 2, 24)
You, too, who are wives must be submissive to your husbands. Some of these still refuse credence to the word; it is for their wives to win them over, not by word but by example; (1 Peter 3, 1)
It was thus that the holy women of old time adorned themselves, those women who had such trust in God, and paid their husbands such respect. (1 Peter 3, 5)
Think how obedient Sara was to Abraham, how she called him her lord; if you would prove yourselves her children, live honestly, and let no anxious thoughts disturb you. (1 Peter 3, 6)
In a word, think the same thoughts, all of you, and share the same feelings; be lovers of the brethren. I would see you tender-hearted, modest, and humble, (1 Peter 3, 8)
not repaying injury with injury, or hard words with hard words, but blessing those who curse you. This God’s call demands of you, and you will inherit a blessing in your turn. (1 Peter 3, 9)
