In which ye greatly rejoice, although made sorrowful in various trials. Since it is now necessary for a little while,

About which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently. Men who prophesied about the grace for you,

To whom it was revealed, that they were serving not themselves, but you, those things that were now reported to you by those who preached good-news to you in Holy Spirit, which was sent forth from heaven, into which things heavenly

and, A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, men who stumble at the word, being disobedient, for which also they were set.

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.

Of which let it not be the outward world of braiding of hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on apparel,

but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible, of the meek and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

in which also, having gone, he preached to the spirits in prison

who were disobedient formerly, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah who prepared an ark in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.

Which counterpart--immersion--now also saves us, not the putting away of filth of flesh, but an appeal of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

During which they think it strange of you not running together into the same pouring out of debauchery, while they slander.

Beloved, ye should not be surprised at the fieriness in you, which occurs for a trial to you, like a strange thing happening to you.

By Silvanus, the faithful brother to you, as I reckon, I wrote because of a few things, exhorting and testifying this to be the TRUE grace of God in which ye stand.