For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.’
although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?
This would be my consolation; I would even exult in pain unsparing; for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
but in your hearts reverence Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence;
“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why hast thou made me thy mark? Why have I become a burden to thee?
But oh, that God would speak, and open his lips to you,
for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching.