Therefore to you who believe he is precious: but to the unbelievers, the stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of the corner, and the stone of stumbling, and the rock of offence,

Therefore Christ having suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same mind: because the one having suffered in carnality has ceased from sin;

in which they are astonished you not running to the same excess of wrath, blaspheming;

as each one received the gift of grace, ministering the same to one another, as the good stewards of the manifold grace of God:

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, coming upon you unto your testing: as some strange thing happening to you:

Be sober, watch. The devil is walking round like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour:

whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that it is for you to complete the same sufferings in this world along with your brotherhood.

Through Silvanus, the faithful brother, as I consider, I have written unto you briefly, exhorting, and witnessing that this same grace of God is true in which you may stand.