Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his abundant mercy, has, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, regenerated us for a living hope

but as he who has called you is holy, so be you holy in all your behavior:

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass; the grass withers, and its flower fails away: but the word of the Lord abides forever: and this is the word which has been preached as gospel to you.

To you, then, who believe, is this preciousness: but the stone which the builders rejected, has become the head of the corner,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you should show forth the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having become subject to him.

Since, then, Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, do you also arm yourselves with the same determination; for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

As each has received a gift, minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Beloved, be not amazed at the fiery trial that has come on you to try you, as if some strange thing had happened to you.

For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God; and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of those who obey not the gospel of God?

But may the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, confirm you.