and you by God's power are being protected through faith to receive a salvation that is now ready to be disclosed at the last time.

but like the holy Being who has called you, you must also prove holy in all your conduct,

Live upright lives among the heathen, so that even if they charge you with being evil-doers, they may from observing the uprightness of your conduct come to praise God on the Day of Judgment.

For God approves a man if from a sense of duty he endures suffering unjustly inflicted??20 for what credit is there in your enduring being beaten for doing wrong? But if you endure suffering for doing what is right, you have God's approval.

Dear friends, do not be surprised that a test of fire is being applied to you, as though a strange thing were happening to you,

If you are being abused for the sake of Christ, you are blessed, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.

but if a man suffers for being a Christian, he must not be ashamed of it, but must do honor to God through that name.