Talált 23719 Eredmények: Re
And who is to do you wrong, if only what is good inspires your ambitions? (1 Peter 3, 13)
If, after all, you should have to suffer in the cause of right, yours is a blessed lot. Do not be afraid or disturbed at their threats; (1 Peter 3, 14)
enthrone Christ as Lord in your hearts. If anyone asks you to give an account of the hope which you cherish, be ready at all times to answer for it, (1 Peter 3, 15)
but courteously and with due reverence. What matters is that you should have a clear conscience; so the defamers of your holy life in Christ will be disappointed in their calumny. (1 Peter 3, 16)
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)
and it was in his spirit that he went and preached to the spirits who lay in prison. (1 Peter 3, 19)
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)
Christ’s mortal nature, then, has been crucified, and you must arm yourselves with the same intention; he whose mortal nature has been crucified is quit, now, of sin.✻ (1 Peter 4, 1)
The rest of your mortal life must be ordered by God’s will, not by human appetites. (1 Peter 4, 2)
Time enough has been spent already in doing what the heathen would have you do, following a course of incontinence, passion, drunkenness, revelling, carousal, and shameful idolatry. (1 Peter 4, 3)
They are surprised that you do not rush headlong into the same welter of debauch, and call you ill names accordingly; (1 Peter 4, 4)
