for it is written, &#8220;<i><b>You shall be holyb>, <b>because I am holyb>i>.&#8221;<n id="1" />

For God wants you<n id="1" /> to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.

For you were <b><i>going astray like sheepi>b><n id="1" /> but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.p>

Let your<n id="1" /> beauty<n id="2" /> not be external &#8211; the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry<n id="3" /> or fine clothes &#8211;

who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God<n id="1" /> with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.<n id="2" />p>

Through him you now trust<n id="1" /> in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.p>

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>but the word of the Lordi>b><n id="1" /> <i><b>endures foreverb>.i><n id="2" />p> <p class="bodyblock">And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.p>

but the inner person<n id="1" /> of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God&#8217;s sight.

<p class="bodytext">after they were disobedient long ago<n id="1" /> when God patiently waited<n id="2" /> in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark<n id="3" /> a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Through Silvanus,<n id="1" /> whom I know to be a faithful brother,<n id="2" /> I have written to you briefly, in order to encourage you and testify<n id="3" /> that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast in it.<n id="4" />

Whoever speaks, let it be with<n id="1" /> God&#8217;s words.<n id="2" /> Whoever serves, do so with the strength<n id="3" /> that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong<n id="4" /> the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.p>