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1:1 On account of the sudden and repeated calamities and mischances,
brethren, that have come upon us, we suppose that we have the more slowly given
heed to the things that are disputed among you, beloved, and to the foul and
unholy sedition, alien and foreign to the elect of God, which a few headstrong
and self-willed persons have kindled to such a degree of madness, that your
venerable and famous name, worthy to be loved of all men, is greatly blasphemed.
1:2 For who that hath tarried among you hath not approved your most virtuous
and firm faith, hath not admired your sober and seemly piety in Christ, hath not
proclaimed your splendid disposition of hospitality, hath not deemed blessed
your perfect and unerring knowledge?
1:3 For ye did all things without respect of persons, and walked in the laws
of God, submitting yourselves to them that have the rule over you, and giving
the due honour to the presbyters that are among you. Young men ye enjoined to
think such things as be sober and grave.
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Women ye exhorted to perform all things
in a blameless and honourable and pure conscience, loving dutifully their own
husbands; and ye taught them to manage the affairs of their houses with gravity,
keeping in the rule of obedience, being temperate in all things.