Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ --

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,"

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;