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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)
but in the hidden features of your hearts, in a possession you can never lose, that of a calm and tranquil spirit; to God’s eyes, beyond price. (1 Peter 3, 4)
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)
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)
It may be God’s will that we should suffer for doing right; better that, than for doing wrong. (1 Peter 3, 17)
It was thus that Christ died as a ransom, paid once for all, on behalf of our sins, he the innocent for us the guilty, so as to present us in God’s sight. In his mortal nature he was done to death, but endowed with fresh life in his spirit, (1 Peter 3, 18)
Long before, they had refused belief, hoping that God would be patient with them, in the days of Noe. That ark which Noe was then building, in which a few souls, eight in all, found refuge as they passed through the waves,✻ (1 Peter 3, 20)
was a type of the baptism which saves us now. Our baptism is not a putting away of outward defilement; it is the test which assures us of a good conscience before God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.✻ (1 Peter 3, 21)
He sits, now, at the right hand of God, annihilating death, to make us heirs of eternal life; he has taken his journey to heaven, with all the angels and powers and princedoms made subject under his feet.✻ (1 Peter 3, 22)
The rest of your mortal life must be ordered by God’s will, not by human appetites. (1 Peter 4, 2)
That is why dead men, too, had the gospel message brought to them; though their mortal natures had paid the penalty in men’s eyes, in the sight of God their spirits were to live on.✻ (1 Peter 4, 6)
sharing with all whatever gift each of you has received, as befits the stewards of a God so rich in graces. (1 Peter 4, 10)
