Daily Reading

1 Peter 2:11-4:19

2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that,
whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your
good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of
visitation.

2:13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's
sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

2:14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for
the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do
well.

2:15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put
to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of
maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

2:17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour
the king.

2:18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not
only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

2:19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward
God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

2:20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your
faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well,
and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable
with God.

2:21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also
suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow
his steps:

2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

2:23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he
suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him
that judgeth righteously:

2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,
that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by
whose stripes ye were healed.

2:25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned
unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

3:1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands;
that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word
be won by the conversation of the wives;

3:2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with
fear.

3:3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of
plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of
apparel;

3:4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which
is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet
spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

3:5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also,
who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection
unto their own husbands:

3:6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose
daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid
with any amazement.

3:7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to
knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker
vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that
your prayers be not hindered.

3:8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of
another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but
contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called,
that ye should inherit a blessing.

3:10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him
refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no
guile:

3:11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his
ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord
is against them that do evil.

3:13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of
that which is good?

3:14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are
ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready
always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a
reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of
you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse
your good conversation in Christ.

3:17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye
suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for
the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death
in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in
prison;

3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the
longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark
was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved
by water.

3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save
us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the
answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ:

3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God;
angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh,
arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath
suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the
flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have
wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in
lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings,
and abominable idolatries:

4:4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to
the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

4:5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the
quick and the dead.

4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that
are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the
flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober,
and watch unto prayer.

4:8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves:
for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

4:9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the
same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of
God.

4:11 If any man speak, [let him speak] as the oracles of God; if any man minister, [let him do it] as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial
which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto
you:

4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's
sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be
glad also with exceeding joy.

4:14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye;
for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their
part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief,
or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be
ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the
house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the
end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the
ungodly and the sinner appear?

4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God
commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as
unto a faithful Creator.



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