1 Peter 2: 17 - 25

Come, sit, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee in the comfort of the Lord:  "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice."  Ephesians  4:31


17. Honour all men.  Love the brotherhood.  Fear God.  Honour the king.
18. Servants, e suject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.
19. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
20. For what glory is it, if, when ye be beaten for your faults, you shall take it patiently?  but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
21. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
22. WHO DID NO SIN, NEITHER WAS GUILE FOUND IN HIS MOUTH:
23. Who, when he was reviled, reviled not in return; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
24. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
25. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.