by the power of God, having been kept through faith to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time;

whom having not seen, you love; in whom not yet seeing, but believing in Him you exult with unspeakable joy, and having been glorified,

indeed having been foreknown before the foundation of the world, but revealed in the last times for you,

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living Word of God, and abiding forever.

For having been drawn to Him, a living Stone, indeed rejected by men, but elect, precious with God;

Therefore, Christ having suffered for us in the flesh, also you arm yourselves with the same thought, that he suffering in the flesh has been made to rest from sin,