since your new Life has come, not from perishable, but imperishable, seed, through the Message of the Everliving God.

Come to Him, then, as to a living stone, rejected, indeed, by men, but in God's eyes choice and precious;

No, the more you share the sufferings of the Christ, the more may you rejoice, that, when the time comes for the manifestation of his Glory, you may rejoice and exult.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the House of God; and, if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who reject God's Good News?

God, from whom all help comes, and who called you, by your union with Christ, into his eternal glory, will, when you have suffered for a little while, himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.