who are preserved by the power of God through faith unto the salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

In whom you rejoice, if however it is needful, being grieved a little while among manifold temptations: in order

whom you not seeing, love with divine love; on whom, not looking, but believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

Concerning which salvation the prophets, who prophesied concerning the grace towards you, sought out and investigated,

searching into what, or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ who was in them, witnessing the sufferings towards Christ, and the glories after these, did show:

to whom it was revealed, because they were ministering not these things for themselves, but for you, which are now proclaimed unto you by those who preach to you the gospel with the Holy Ghost having been sent from heaven; into which things the angels desire to look down.

but according to the Holy One who has called you. Be ye also holy in all your deportment;

who through him are faithful toward God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope are toward God.

having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, through the word of God, who lives and abides.

Unto whom going forth, to a living stone, indeed rejected by men, but elect with God, precious,

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,

who stumble over the word, disbelieving: unto which they indeed were appointed.

who at one time were no people, but now you are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, lint just now having received mercy.

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

who, being reviled, reviled not again; suffering, he threatened not, but gave up to the one judging righteously:

who himself has borne our sins in his own body on the wood, in order that we, being made free from sins, may live unto righteousness: by whose stripe you are healed.

Who is the one about to harm you, if you may be zealots of the good?

who at one time were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, the ark being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through the water.

who is on the right hand of God, having gone up into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being subordinated unto him.

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

if any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any one ministers, as from the strength which God supplies; in order that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ; to whom there is glory and power unto the ages of the ages. Amen.

Because it is time that judgment should begin from the house of God: and if it is first from us, what shall be the end of those who obey not the gospel of God?

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:

whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that it is for you to complete the same sufferings in this world along with your brotherhood.

The elect sister who is in Babylon, and my son Mark, salute you.

Salute one another with a holy kiss. Peace be unto you all who are in Christ.