so that the genuineness of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even after it is shown by the test of fire to be genuine, may result in your praise and glory and honor at the unveiling of Jesus Christ.

concerning which salvation the prophets, who prophesied of the grace to be conferred on you, enquired and diligently sought after it:

Attempting to see what sort of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them was pointing to, when it gave witness to the pains which Christ would undergo and the glories which would come after them.

As children of obedience, not being fashioned after your former lusts in ignorance:

but in your whole life show yourselves to be holy, after the pattern of the Holy One from whom you received your Call.

After all, what kind of credit is there if, when you do wrong and are punished for it, you endure it patiently? But if when you do what is right and patiently bear [undeserved] suffering, this finds favor with God.

[After all], this is what you were called to do, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you would follow in His steps.

Married women, in the same way, be submissive to your husbands, so that even if some of them disbelieve the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over by the daily life of their wives, after watching your daily life--

For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

If any man long after life, and loveth to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips, that they speak not guile:

And let him be turned from evil and do good; searching for peace and going after it with all his heart.

After all, if it is the will of God, it is better to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong.

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all,
the righteous for the unrighteous,
that He might bring you to God,
after being put to death in the fleshly realm
but made alive in the spiritual realm.

after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.

that he might not spend the remaining space of life in the flesh after human passions, but the divine will.

Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

For to this end were the glad tidings preached to the dead also, that they might be judged, as regards men, after the flesh, but live, as regards God, after the Spirit.

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you.