1 Peter 2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ 0 Who in time past were not a people: but are now the people of God. Who had not obtained mercy; but now have obtained mercy.

² 1 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

³ 2 Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works, which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.

⁴ 3 Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling;

⁵ 4 Or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of the good:

⁶ 5 For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

⁷ 6 As free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

⁸ 7 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

⁹ 8 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

¹⁰ 9 For this is thankworthy, if for conscience towards God, a man endure sorrows, suffering wrongfully.

¹¹ 0 For what glory is it, if committing sin, and being buffeted for it, you endure? But if doing well you suffer patiently; this is thankworthy before God.

¹² 1 For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps.

¹³ 2 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.

¹⁴ 3 Who, when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he threatened not: but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly.

¹⁵ 4 Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

¹⁶ 5 For you were as sheep going astray; but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

¹⁷ In like manner also let wives be subject to their husbands: that if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives.

¹⁸ Considering your chaste conversation with fear.

¹⁹ Whose adorning let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel:

²⁰ But the hidden man of the heart in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit, which is rich in the sight of God.

²¹ For after this manner heretofore the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

²² As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, doing well, and not fearing any disturbance.

²³ Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel, and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

²⁴ And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble:

²⁵ Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.