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Servants, [be] in subjection to your masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

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For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully.

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For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted [for it], ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer [for it], ye shall take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

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For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:

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who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

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who, when he was reviled, reviled not again when he suffered threatened not but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously:

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who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed.

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For ye were going astray like sheep but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.