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 laying aside all malice, and all deceit, and hypocrisies,

To you therefore who believe it is precious: but to them that are disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner,

Be subject therefore to every human form of government, for the Lord's sake: whether it be to a king as 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:

Seeing therefore Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same thought, that he, who hath mortified the flesh, hath ceased from sin;

in which they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, and therefore speak evil of you:

But the end of all things draws nigh: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer:

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