Therefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope entirely for the grace brought to you at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

Having therefore purified your souls by obedience to the truth, through the Spirit, to brotherly love unfeigned, love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Therefore all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass: the grass is withered, and the flower fell off;

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

It is therefore contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, chosen, precious. And he who believes in him will, no, not be shamed.

For you therefore that believe is the preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;

a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. Those who stumble at the word, are disobedient unbelievers, to which, therefore, they were appointed:

Therefore because of the Lord, ye should submit to every human establishment, whether to a king as being supreme,

But if ye should even suffer for righteousness sake, happy are ye: and therefore be not afraid of their menaces, neither be troubled; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts:

Therefore of Christ having suffered in flesh for us, arm ye yourselves also with the same mentality, because he who has suffered in flesh has ceased from sin,

And it seemeth to them a strange thing that ye run not also with them unto the same excess of riot, and therefore speak they evil of you,

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

take care therefore not to suffer upon the account of homicide, or thievery, or for any criminal, or pragmatical practices.

Therefore also let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls as to a faithful Creator by well-doing.

Elders, therefore, among you, I exhort - I who am their co-elder and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, who also, in the glory about to be revealed, have, a share; -

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;