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For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit;

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer by human passions but by the will of God.

but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

But rejoice in so far as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or a wrongdoer, or a mischief-maker;

yet if one suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but under that name let him glorify God.

Tend the flock of God that is your charge, not by constraint but willingly, not for shameful gain but eagerly,

not as domineering over those in your charge but being examples to the flock.

Likewise you that are younger be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of nether gloom to be kept until the judgment;

if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven other persons, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed, reviling in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed in the same destruction with them,

but was rebuked for his own transgression; a dumb ass spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for whatever overcomes a man, to that he is enslaved.

But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist have been stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.