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

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

whom not having seen you love, in whom believing though now you see him not you rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorious,

Concerning which salvation the prophets also who prophesied concerning the grace [bestowed] on us inquired diligently and sought,

to whom it was revealed that they ministered not to themselves but to us those things which have now been declared to you by those who preached to you the good news, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, into which the angels desire to look.

And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each one's work, spend the time of your life with fear,

who was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but made manifest in these last times for you,

who through him believed in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

To whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed by men but approved by God, elect, precious,

To you therefore who believe he is precious; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the head of a corner

and a stone of stumbling and rock of offense, who stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light;

who formerly were not a people, but now are a people of God, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

to governors, sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and the praise of those who do well;

who committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth,

who being reviled reviled not, suffering threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously,

who himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, that we having died to sins, may live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

For so formerly also the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves, being subject to their husbands,

And who is he that will injure you if you are followers of what is good?

having a good conscience, that in what they speak evil of you they may be ashamed who slander your good conduct in Christ.

who were formerly disobedient when the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is eight souls, were saved by water.

who is on the right hand of God, having gone to heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

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

Let those therefore who suffer by the will of God, commit their souls to him in well doing as a faithful creator.

The elders among you I exhort, who am a co-elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed;

Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour;

whom resist, firm in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished by your brothers in the world.

And may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when you have suffered a little while, himself make you perfect, confirm, strengthen, establish you.