and into an inheritance imperishable and undefiled and fadeless, which has been kept in heaven for you

but become yourselves holy in your whole manner of living, as He who has called you is holy,

But the word of the Lord abides forever. And this is the word of the gospel which has been told to you.

For you, then, that believe, is the preciousness; but for those who do not believe, A stone which the builders rejected, The same has become the head stone of the corner,

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you may show forth the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light??10 you who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who were once without mercy, but now you have found mercy.

Since, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, do you also ever arm yourselves with the same mind (because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin),

Whatever the gifts which each has received, use them for one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Do not think it strange, beloved, that a fiery ordeal has come to test you, as though some surprising thing had befallen you.

But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.