¹⁸ Domestic slaves, be subject to your^[a] masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are unjust. ¹⁹ For this finds favor, if because of consciousness of God someone endures sorrows while^[b] suffering unjustly. ²⁰ For what credit is it if, when you^[c] sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if you endure when you^[d] do good and suffer for it, this finds favor with God. ²¹ For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps, ²² who did not commit sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth,^{[e] 23} who when he^[f] was reviled, did not revile in return; when^[g] suffering, he did not threaten, but entrusted himself to the one who judges justly, ²⁴ who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we may die to sins and live to righteousness, by whose wounds you were healed. ²⁵ For you were going astray like sheep, but you have turned back now to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.