1 Peter 2:11-25

11Beloved, I exhort [you], as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 12having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that [as to that] in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through [your] good works, [themselves] witnessing [them], glorify 1God in [the] day of visitation. 13Be in subjection [therefore] to every human institution for the Lord's sake; whether to [the] king as supreme, 14or to rulers as sent by him, for vengeance on evildoers, and praise to them that do well. 15Because so is the will of 2God, that by well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of senseless men; 16as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as 3God's bondmen. 17Shew honour to all, love the brotherhood, fear 4God, honour the king. 18Servants, [be] subject with all fear to your masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the ill-tempered. 19For this [is] acceptable, if one, for conscience sake towards 5God, endure griefs, suffering unjustly. 20For what glory [is it], if sinning and being buffeted ye shall bear [it]? but if, doing good and suffering, ye shall bear [it], this is acceptable with 6God. 21For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps: 22who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth; 23who, [when] reviled, reviled not again; [when] suffering, threatened not; but gave [himself] over into the hands of him who judges righteously; 24who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, in order that, being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye have been healed. 25For ye were going astray as sheep, but have now returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.