“Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect, not
only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are
unreasonable. For this finds favor, if for the sake of
conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when
suffering unjustly. For what credit is there if, when you sin
and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if
when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure
it, this finds favor with God. For you have been called for this
purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an
example for you to follow in His steps, WHO COMMITTED NO SIN,
NOR WAS ANY DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH; and while being reviled,
He did not revile in return ; while suffering, He uttered no
threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges
righteously; and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the
cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness;
for by His wounds you were healed. For you were continually
straying like sheep but now you have returne