Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep a clear head, and set your hope completely on the grace to be given you when Jesus, the Messiah, is revealed.

For you have been born again, not by a seed that perishes but by one that cannot perish by the living and everlasting word of God.

As you come to him, the living stone who was rejected by people but was chosen and precious in God's sight,

After all, this is how holy women who set their hope on God used to make themselves beautiful in the past. They submitted themselves to their husbands,