elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by sanctification of the Spirit, unto the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his great mercy, has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead,

who are kept guarded by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

who by him do believe on God, who has raised him from among the dead and given him glory, that your faith and hope should be in God.

being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the living and abiding word of God.

if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord is good.

To whom coming, a living stone, cast away indeed as worthless by men, but with God chosen, precious,

yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

who once were not a people, but now God's people; who were not enjoying mercy, but now have found mercy.

having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through your good works, themselves witnessing them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Because so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of senseless men;

as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.

Shew honour to all, love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the king.

Servants, be subject with all fear to your masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the ill-tempered.

For this is acceptable, if one, for conscience sake towards God, endure griefs, suffering unjustly.

For what glory is it, if sinning and being buffeted ye shall bear it? but if, doing good and suffering, ye shall bear it, this is acceptable with God.

but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price.

For thus also the holy women who have hoped in God heretofore adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands;

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children ye have become, doing good, and not fearing with any kind of consternation.

For he that will love life and see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil and his lips that they speak no guile.

And let him avoid evil, and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it;

And who shall injure you if ye have become imitators of that which is good?

having a good conscience, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ.

For it is better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer as well-doers than as evildoers;

for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

heretofore disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

which figure also now saves you, even baptism, not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the demand as before God of a good conscience, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

who is at the right hand of God, gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being subjected to him.

no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.

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.

each according as he has received a gift, ministering it to one another, as good stewards of the various grace of God.

If any one speak as oracles of God; if any one minister as of strength which God supplies; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the might for the ages of ages. Amen.

If ye are reproached in the name of Christ, blessed are ye; for the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God rests upon you: on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

but if as a christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God in this name.

For the time of having the judgment begin from the house of God is come; but if first from us, what shall be the end of those who obey not the glad tidings of God?

Wherefore also let them who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing to a faithful Creator.

shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising oversight, not by necessity, but willingly; not for base gain, but readily;

Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble gives grace.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the due time;

But the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered for a little while, himself shall make perfect, stablish, strengthen, ground:

By Silvanus, the faithful brother, as I suppose, I have written to you briefly; exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which ye stand.