when they see your respectful and pure conduct.
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,
Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
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