1 Peter 2:18-25

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁸ Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and courteous, but also to the crooked.

¹⁹ For this is grace: if anyone - for the sake of conscience toward God - endures grief, suffering wrongly.

²⁰ For what praise is it, if when you are mistreated for your faults, you take it patiently? But if you suffer when you do well, and take it patiently, this is acceptable to God.

²¹ For you are called to this. For Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you could follow His steps.

²² “He did no sin. Nor was there guile found in His mouth.”

²³ When He was reviled, He did not revile in return. When He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed it to Him Who judges righteously.

²⁴ He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, would live in righteousness. “By His wounds you were healed.”

²⁵ For you were as sheep, going astray, but now are returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.