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Be Subject To Your Masters, Whether Good Or Bad, Following Christ’s Example

18 ... servants, being subject to your masters with all fear[a], not only to the good and kind ones, but also to the crooked[b] ones. 19 For this finds favor— if for the sake of a consciousness[c] of God one bears-up[d] while suffering sorrows unjustly. 20 For what-kind-of credit[e] is it if while sinning and being beaten, you will endure? But if while doing-good and suffering you will endure, this finds favor with God.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:18 That is, with all respect; or, in all reverence of God.
  2. 1 Peter 2:18 Or, dishonest, unscrupulous. That is, toward you, v 19.
  3. 1 Peter 2:19 Or, conscience toward God.
  4. 1 Peter 2:19 Or, endures.
  5. 1 Peter 2:20 Or, fame, glory.

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