those believing in God through Him, He who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

Therefore also it is contained in the Scripture: "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner Stone, elect, precious, and he who believes on Him shall never be ashamed."

Therefore to you who believe is the honor. But to those who are disobedient, He is the Stone which the builders rejected; this One came to be the Head of the corner,

He who did no sin, nor was guile found in His mouth,

who when He was reviled did not revile in return. When He suffered, He did not threaten, but gave Himself up to Him who judges righteously.

He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

For he that wants to love life and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.

For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;

in which also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,

Therefore, Christ having suffered for us in the flesh, also you arm yourselves with the same thought, that he suffering in the flesh has been made to rest from sin,

each one as he received a gift, ministering it to yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of God and of glory rests on you. Truly according to them, He is blasphemed, but according to you He is glorified.

Likewise, younger ones, be subject to older ones, and all being subject to one another. Put on humility. For God resists proud ones, but He gives grace to the humble.

Therefore be humbled under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time,

casting all your anxiety onto Him, for He cares for you.

Be sensible and vigilant, because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour;

But the God of all grace, He calling us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, He will perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.