because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

and,
“A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”;
for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.

Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.

If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.