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but for those who do not believe,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">“The stone that the builders rejected</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">has become the very head of the corner,”</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>and</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">“A stone that makes them stumble,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and a rock that makes them fall.”</span></span></p></div><p class="first-line-none"><span class="text">They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34663c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.</span></p> <div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Once you were not a people,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but now you are God’s people;</span></span><br /><span class="text">once you had not received mercy,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but now you have received mercy.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Live as Servants of God</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that, though they malign you as evildoers, they may see your honorable deeds and glorify God when he comes to judge.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34666d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>For the Lord’s sake accept the authority of every human institution,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34667e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> whether of the emperor as supreme, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>or of governors, as sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>For it is God’s will that by doing right you should silence the ignorance of the foolish. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>As servants<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34670f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Honor everyone. Love the family of believers.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34671g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> Fear God. Honor the emperor.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Example of Christ’s Suffering</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Slaves, accept the authority of your masters with all deference, not only those who are kind and gentle but also those who are harsh. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>For it is a credit to you if, being aware of God, you endure pain while suffering unjustly. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>If you endure when you are beaten for doing wrong, what credit is that? But if you endure when you do right and suffer for it, you have God’s approval. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his steps.</span></p> <div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>“He committed no sin,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and no deceit was found in his mouth.”</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten; but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34678h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> so that, free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34678i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> you have been healed. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>For you were going astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Peter 2:5">1 Peter 2:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>you yourselves are being built</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Peter 2:6">1 Peter 2:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>it</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Peter 2:9">1 Peter 2:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>a people for his possession</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Peter 2:12">1 Peter 2:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>God on the day of visitation</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Peter 2:13">1 Peter 2:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>every institution ordained for human beings</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Peter 2:16">1 Peter 2:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>slaves</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Peter 2:17">1 Peter 2:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>Love the brotherhood</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Peter 2:24">1 Peter 2:24</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>carried up our sins in his body to the tree</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Peter 2:24">1 Peter 2:24</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>bruise</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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