and you by God's power are being protected through faith to receive a salvation that is now ready to be disclosed at the last time.

trying to learn for what possible time the spirit of Christ within them in predicting the sufferings destined for Christ intended them and the glories that were to follow them.

And if you address him as Father who judges everyone impartially by what he does, you must live reverently all the time you stay here,

who had once been disobedient, when in Noah's time God in his patience waited for the ark to be made ready, in which a few people, eight in all, were brought safely through the water.

You have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation, and detestable idolatry.

For the time has come for the judgment to begin with the household of God, and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who refuse God's good news?

Submit humbly, therefore, to God's mighty hand, so that he may in due time raise you up.