Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,

They probed into what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he testified beforehand about the sufferings appointed for Christ and his subsequent glory.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.