Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

But the word of the Lord will last forever," that is, the good news that has been brought to you.

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;

For you were straying like lost sheep, but now you have come back to the Shepherd and Protector of your souls.

Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:

It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,