Therefore having girded up the loins of your minds, being perfectly sober, hope unto the grace which is conferred on you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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

Therefore having laid aside all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all calumniations;

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;

But the end of all things is at hand. Therefore be prudent, and sober unto prayers:

Therefore I, being a fellow-elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, also a communicant of the glory which is about to be revealed, exhort the elders who are among you:

Therefore humble yourselves beneath the mighty hand of God, that he may lift you up in due time: