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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1PE.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">As you come to him, the living Stone&#8212;rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1PE.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">into a temple of the Spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For in Scripture it says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I lay a stone in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">a chosen and precious cornerstone,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">and the one who trusts in him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">will never be put to shame.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:6 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.28.16">Isaiah 28:16</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="content">&#8220;The stone the builders rejected</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="content">has become the cornerstone,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.118.22">Psalm 118:22</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">&#8220;A stone that causes people to stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">and a rock that makes them fall.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.8.14">Isaiah 8:14</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">They stumble because they disobey the message&#8212;which is also what they were destined for.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1PE.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God&#8217;s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Living Godly Lives in a Pagan Society</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.2.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1PE.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1PE.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1PE.2.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1PE.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Submit yourselves for the Lord&#8217;s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1PE.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1PE.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For it is God&#8217;s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1PE.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God&#8217;s slaves. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1PE.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1PE.2.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1PE.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1PE.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1PE.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1PE.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1PE.2.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1PE.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;He committed no sin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1PE.2.22"><span class="content">and no deceit was found in his mouth.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:22 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.53.9">Isaiah 53:9</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1PE.2.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1PE.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1PE.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;He himself bore our sins&#8221; in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; &#8220;by his wounds you have been healed.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1PE.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">For &#8220;you were like sheep going astray,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:24,25 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.53.4">Isaiah 53:4</span>,<span class="ref" usfm="ISA.53.5">5</span>,<span class="ref" usfm="ISA.53.6">6</span> (see Septuagint)</span></span></span><span class="content"> but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1PE.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1PE.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1PE.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1PE.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God&#8217;s sight. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1PE.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.3.6"></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1PE.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God&#8217;s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.2.10"></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1PE.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1PE.2.21"></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1PE.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1PE.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1PE.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1PE.2.21"></span></div>
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