Servants obey your masters with all fear, not only if they be good and courteous: but also though they be froward.

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

Likewise, ye men, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as unto them that are heirs also of the grace of life, that your prayers be not let.

In which spirit, he also went and preached unto the spirits that were in prison,

And it seemeth to them a strange thing that ye run not also with them unto the same excess of riot, and therefore speak they evil of you,

The elders which are among you I exhort, which am also an elder and a witness of the afflictions of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be opened: