whom not having seen you love, in whom believing though now you see him not you rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorious,

who through him believed in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

for it is said in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious, and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light;

to governors, sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and the praise of those who do well;

who being reviled reviled not, suffering threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously,

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose children you are, doing good and having no fear.

For he that will love life and see good days, let him withhold his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit,

let him abstain from evil and do good, let him seek peace and pursue it,

who is on the right hand of God, having gone to heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

who shall give an account to him that is ready to judge the living and dead.

If any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God, if any one serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the power for ever and ever; amen.

but as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, let him glorify God on this account.

Let those therefore who suffer by the will of God, commit their souls to him in well doing as a faithful creator.

casting all your care upon him, for he cares for you.

To him be the glory and the power for ever; amen.