SCRIPTURE
I Peter 2: 19-25
19 For it is a credit
to you if, being aware of God, you endure pain while suffering unjustly. 20 If
you endure when you are beaten for doing wrong, what credit is that? But if you
endure when you do right and suffer for it, you have God's approval. 21 For to
this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an
example, so that you should follow in his steps. 22 "He committed no sin,
and no deceit was found in his mouth." 23 When he was abused, he did not
return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten; but he entrusted himself to
the one who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross,
so that, free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have
been healed. 25 For you were going astray like sheep, but now you have returned
to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.