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Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
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For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
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For what glory is it, if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.
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For to this were you called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps,
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who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth."
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Who, when he was reviled, didn`t revile back. When he suffered, didn`t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
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who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
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For you were going astray like sheep; but are now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.