who are kept guarded by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently;

as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,

For what glory is it, if sinning and being buffeted ye shall bear it? but if, doing good and suffering, ye shall bear it, this is acceptable with God.

who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, in order that, being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye have been healed.

having witnessed your pure conversation carried out in fear;