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You must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love. (vs. 5-7)

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time. (v. 6)

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. (v. 12)

from ancient days. (v. 2)

Maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaining. Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received. (vs. 8-10)

'If another member of the church sins against you …' (v. 15)

Even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed (v. 14)

Wives, in the same way, accept the authority of your husbands, so that, even if some of them do not obey the word, they may be won over without a word by their wives’ conduct, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. (vs. 1-2)

As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil. Honour everyone. Love the family of believers. Fear God. Honour the emperor. (vs. 16-17)

Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (vs. 4-5)

Therefore prepare your minds for action; discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed. (v. 13)