For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,"

Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God?