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.

Who, being reviled, reviled not back; suffering, he threatened not; and delivered to him judging justly;

And finally, all unanimous, suffering together, loving the brethren, having good bowels, an affectionate disposition:

Therefore let them also suffering according to the will of God commit their souls in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.

Whom resist firm in the faith, knowing that the same of sufferings are completed by your brotherhood in the world.

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.

But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy.

The elders among you I beseech, a fellow elder, and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a participator of the glory which is about to be revealed: