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:

searching for what, or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ in them indicated, predicting the sufferings in Christ, and the glories after these things.

As obedient children, do not pattern your lives after the evil desires you formerly had when you were ignorant,

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 henceforward should live as much time as remaineth in the flesh, not after the lusts of men: but after the will of God.

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 was the gospel preach'd to those, who are now dead, that after having suffer'd the loss of this frail life from men, they might enjoy an immortal life with God.

And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.