1 Peter 2:18-25 - Submission Of Slaves To Masters
18 You that are servants, be subject to your masters with all reverence: not only to such as are kind and gentle, 19 but even to the morose. for it is a recommendation to the divine favour, to suffer unjust persecution 20 from a principle of conscience. what glory is there in suffering corporal punishment for real offences? but if you meet with ill usage for doing your duty, and bear it with constancy,
21 this will conciliate the divine favour. and this is the condition of your vocation, since Christ himself has suffer'd for us, 22 leaving an example for your exact imitation, he who never offended, and from whose lips no fallacy was ever utter'd, 23 who, when he was reviled, did not revile again: when he was in his sufferings, he did not threat, but referr'd his cause to the righteous judge. 24 he himself cancel'd our sins by the crucifixion of his body, that we being set free from sin, might live in the service of virtue. it is by his bruises that you were healed: 25 for you were as sheep going astray, but now you are brought back to the pastor and overseer of your souls.