Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his great mercy, has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead,

who are kept guarded by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

whom, having not seen, ye love; on whom though not now looking, but believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and filled with the glory,

Concerning which salvation prophets, who have prophesied of the grace towards you, sought out and searched out;

To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves but to you they ministered those things, which have now been announced to you by those who have declared to you the glad tidings by the Holy Spirit, sent from heaven, which angels desire to look into.

but as he who has called you is holy, be ye also holy in all your conversation;

And if ye invoke as Father him who, without regard of persons, judges according to the work of each, pass your time of sojourn in fear,

foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes,

who by him do believe on God, who has raised him from among the dead and given him glory, that your faith and hope should be in God.

To whom coming, a living stone, cast away indeed as worthless by men, but with God chosen, precious,

To you therefore who believe is the preciousness; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders cast away as worthless, this is become head of the corner,

and a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; who stumble at the word, being disobedient to which also they have been appointed.

But ye are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light;

who once were not a people, but now God's people; who were not enjoying mercy, but now have found mercy.

who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth;

who, when reviled, reviled not again; when suffering, threatened not; but gave himself over into the hands of him who judges righteously;

who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, in order that, being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye have been healed.

For thus also the holy women who have hoped in God heretofore adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands;

And who shall injure you if ye have become imitators of that which is good?

having a good conscience, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ.

who is at the right hand of God, gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being subjected to him.

who shall render account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

If any one speak as oracles of God; if any one minister as of strength which God supplies; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the might for the ages of ages. Amen.

For the time of having the judgment begin from the house of God is come; but if first from us, what shall be the end of those who obey not the glad tidings of God?

Wherefore also let them who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing to a faithful Creator.

The elders which are among you I exhort, who am their fellow-elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, who also am partaker of the glory about to be revealed:

Be vigilant, watch. Your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour.

Whom resist, stedfast in faith, knowing that the selfsame sufferings are accomplished in your brotherhood which is in the world.

But the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered for a little while, himself shall make perfect, stablish, strengthen, ground:

Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace be with you all who are in Christ.