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But now yee reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.

¶ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and enuies, and euill speakings,

Not rendring euill for euill, or railing for railing: but contrarywise blessing, knowing that yee are thereunto called, that ye should inherite a blessing.

For hee that will loue life, and see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euil, and his lips that they speake no guile:

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Let him eschew euil and do good, let him seeke peace and ensue it.

For the eyes of the Lord are ouer the righteous, and his eares are open vnto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that doe euill.

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Hauing a good conscience, that whereas they speake euill of you, as of euill doers, they may bee ashamed that falsly accuse your good conuersation in Christ.

For it is better, if the will of God be so, that yee suffer for well doing, then for euill doing.

Wherein they thinke it strange, that you runne not with them to the same excesse of riot, speaking euil of you:

If ye be reproched for the Name of Christ, happie are ye, for the spirit of glory, and of God resteth vpon you: on their part hee is euill spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.