Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are perverse.

Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be brought low, and the crooked will be made straight, and the rough ways will be made smooth,

With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse generation!”

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world