but as he who has called you is holy, be ye also holy in all your conversation;

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.

and a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; who stumble at the word, being disobedient to which also they have been appointed.

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

For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps:

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

Ye husbands likewise, dwell with them according to knowledge, as with a weaker, even the female, vessel, giving them honour, as also fellow-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

But if also ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed are ye; but be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;

in which also going he preached to the spirits which are in prison,

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,

Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, do ye also arm yourselves with the same mind; for he that has suffered in the flesh has done with sin,

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.

but as ye have share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, that in the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exultation.

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

The elders which are among you I exhort, who am their fellow-elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, who also am partaker of the glory about to be revealed: