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Who will do you any damage if you keep your minds fixed on what is good?

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But you are happy if you undergo pain because of righteousness have no part in their fear and do not be troubled

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But give honour to Christ in your hearts as your Lord and be ready at any time when you are questioned about the hope which is in you, to give an answer in the fear of the Lord and without pride

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Being conscious that you have done no wrong so that those who say evil things about your good way of life as Christians may be put to shame.

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Because if it is God's purpose for you to undergo pain, it is better to do so for well-doing than for evil-doing.

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Because Christ once went through pain for sins, the upright one taking the place of sinners, so that through him we might come back to God being put to death in the flesh, but given life in the Spirit

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By whom he went to the spirits in prison, preaching to those

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Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:

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And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead

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Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.