if you have experienced the Lord’s kindness.

For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.

This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials.

For this finds God’s favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.

And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of the ungodly and sinners?

But in fact, if you happen to suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. But do not be terrified of them or be shaken.

But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear such a name.

And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.

In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live,

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, who is the Spirit of God, rests on you.

Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

For it is time for judgment to begin, starting with the house of God. And if it starts with us, what will be the fate of those who are disobedient to the gospel of God?