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For it is God’s will that by doing good you shouls silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.
For it is God’s will that by doing good you shouls silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.
Live such good lives among the pagans that, though thay accuse you of doing wrong, thay may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him Who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him Who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.
See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in Him will never be put to shame.
As you come to Him, the living Stone- rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to Him- you also, like living stones are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Like newbor babies, crave pure spiritual mik, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
All men are like grass, and their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever.
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.