as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living;

And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, even the blood of Christ:

For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

For you therefore that believe is the preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;

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

having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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

or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:

Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

if any man speaketh,'speaking as it were oracles of God; is any man ministereth, ministering as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you:

but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy.

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters:

but if a man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this name.

neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,

By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I account him , I have written unto you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand ye fast therein.