In which ye rejoice, tho' now for a little while, if need be, ye are grieved through various trials.

whom having not seen ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing ye rejoice with joy ineffable and full of glory; receiving the end of your faith,

to whom it was revealed, that it was not to themselves, but to us they ministered these things, which are now declared unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you, through the holy Spirit sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

and envies, and all evil-speakings, as new-born babes desire that rational milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby:

who heretofore were not a people, but are now the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now turned unto the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

"For he that would desire life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile;

by which also He went and preached to the spirits now in prison;

who of old were disobedient, when the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing; wherein a few, that is eight souls, were saved by water.

The resemblance of which, even baptism, doth also now save us, (not the outward cleansing of filth from the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

that he should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh according to the lusts of men, but after the will of God.

But the end of all things draws nigh: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer: