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If you should suffer for doing what is right and good, don’t let that discourage you! You’re in good company (v. 18) and you’ve already been saved through Christ in baptism.

BibleGateway: 1 Peter 3:13-22

ESV Text: 1 Peter 3:13-22


KJV Text:

The section starts at about 1:38 and ends at about 3:15

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13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? 14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

     16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

     18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

     21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: 22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.(KJV)


Hymn: TLH 259 :
Flung to the Heedless Winds

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1. Flung to the heedless winds 
Or on the waters cast, 
The martyrs’ ashes, watched, 
Shall gathered be at last. 
And from that scattered dust, 
Around us and abroad, 
Shall spring a plenteous seed 
Of witnesses for God. 

2. The Father hath received 
Their latest living breath, 
And vain is Satan’s boast 
Of vict’ry in their death. 
Still, still, though dead, they speak, 
And, trumpet-tongued, proclaim 
To many a wakening land 
The one availing Name.