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Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

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For this [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

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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.

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

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

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Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again when he suffered, he threatened not but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously:

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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.

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