1Peter:3:8-22

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* Finally , you should all be harmonious , sympathetic , loving as brothers , tender-hearted , humble-minded ; * not paying back evil for evil or abuse for abuse , but on the contrary giving a blessing . Because for this you have been called - to inherit a blessing . * He who would love life and enjoy happy days , Let him keep his tongue from evil , And his lips from speaking guile ; * Let him turn from evil and do good , Let him seek peace , and pursue it . * For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous , And his ears are open to their cry ; But the face of the Lord is set against evil-doers . * Yet who will harm you if you become zealous for the good ? * But even if you should suffer in behalf of righteousness , you are happy . Do not be afraid of their terror , neither be troubled . * But consecrate Christ in your hearts , as Lord . Be always in readiness to make and answer to any one who asks you a reason for the hope that is within you , yet with gentleness and reverence . * See that you have a clear conscience , so that , although they speak of you as evil-doers , these libelers of your good Christian lives may be ashamed . * For it is better that you suffer for doing right , if such be Gods will , than for doing wrong ; * because Christ also once for all suffered for sins , the just for the unjust , that he might bring us to God . He was put to death in the flesh , but make alive in spirit . * (It was in spirit that he went and preached the Word to the spirits who were in prison , * who in old times had been disobedient , when Gods longsuffering was waiting in the days of Noah , while an ark was building , in which a few persons - eight in number - were saved by water .) * Baptism , the counterpart of that , now saves you (not the washing off of the filth of the flesh , but the prayer for a good conscience toward God ), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ . * He is gone into heaven , and is on the right hand of God ; to Him angels and authorities and powers have been made subject .

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