that, wherein they speak against you as
evil-doers, they may from your good works, beholding them, glorify God
in the day of visitation.

(13)Submit yourselves to every human institution, for the Lord's sake;
whether to the king, as pre-eminent, (14)or to governors as being sent
by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and the praise of those who
do well. (15)For so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may
put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men; (16)as free, and as
not having your freedom for a vail of wickedness, but as God's
servants.

(17)Honor all men; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king;
(18)ye servants, being in subjection to your masters with all fear,
not only to the good and reasonable, but also to the perverse. (19)For
this is acceptable, if a man for conscience toward God[2:19] endures
griefs, suffering wrongfully. (20)For what glory is it, if when ye are
beaten for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? But if when ye do
well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with
God. (21)For to this ye were called; because Christ also suffered for
you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps; (22)who
committed no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth; (23)who when
he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not;
but committed it to him who judges righteously; (24)who himself bore
our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, having died to our
sins, should live to righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.
(25)For ye were going astray like sheep; but have returned now unto
the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

III.

IN like manner, ye wives, being in subjection to your own husbands;
that even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be won
by the deportment of their wives, (2)when they behold your chaste
deportment coupled with fear. (3)Whose adorning, let it not be the
outward one of braiding the hair, and of wearing golden ornaments, or
of putting on apparel; (4)but the hidden man of the heart, in that
which is imperishable of the meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight
of God is of great price. (5)For so in the old time the holy women
also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to
their own husbands, (6)(as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; of
whom ye became children,) doing good, and fearing no alarm.

(7)Ye husbands, in like manner, dwelling with them according to