To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, kept in the heavens for us,

By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations:

That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

For which salvation the prophets sought and inquired anxiously, they having prophesied of the grace to you:

Searching for whom or what time the Spirit of Christ which in them manifested, testifying beforehand the sufferings to Christ, and the glories after these.

For it has been written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning:

Known truly before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in the last times for you,

For all flesh as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass dried up, and the flower fell out:

As new born babes, long for the sincere milk pertaining to the word, that ye might be nourished with it:

And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

Or to chiefs, as sent by him for the punishing of them doing evil, and the praise of them doing good.

(For so is the will of God, those doing good to silence the want of knowledge of the foolish men:)

As free, and as not having liberty for a covering of wickedness, but as the servants of God.

Honour all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

Servants being subjected to masters in all fear; not only to the good and equitable, but also to the crooked.

For this is grace, if any by consciousness of God bear grief, suffering unjustly.

For what glory, if, sinning and being cuffed, ye endure? but if, doing good, and suffering, ye endure, this is grace with God.

For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps:

For ye were as sheep going astray; but now have turned about to the Shepherd and inspector of your souls.

Having beheld in fear your pure turning back.

For so once also the holy women, hoping in God, arranged themselves, being subjected to their own husbands:

Not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing: and on the contrary prayer; knowing that to this were ye called, that ye might inherit praise.

For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:

For the eyes of the Lord upon the just, and his ears to their prayer: and the face of the Lord against them doing evil.

But if ye also suffer for justice, happy are ye: be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;

And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear:

Fur better, doing good, if the will of God will, to suffer, than doing evil.

For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just one for the unjust, that he might bring us near to God, truly put to death in the flesh, and made alive by the Spirit:

Therefore Christ having suffered for us in the flesh,, also arm ye yourselves with the same mind: (for he having suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;)

For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:

For also for this was the good news announced to the dead, that truly they might be judged according to men in the flesh, and live according to God in the spirit.

More than all having intent love among yourselves: for love shall cover a multitude of sins.

If any speak, as the oracles of God; if any serve, as of the strength which God furnishes: that in all God might be praised by Jesus Christ, in whom is the glory and strength for the time of times. Amen.

Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you:

If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, ye happy; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them truly he is defamed, and by you he is praised.

For let not any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or doing evil, or as an inspector, in what pertains to others.

For the time for judgment to have begun from the house of God: and if first from us, what the end of them not believing the good tidings of God?

Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

Having cast all your care upon him; for to him is the care for you.

Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:

To him the glory and the strength for the time of times. Amen.