As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

but by precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted--of Christ,

Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls away,

as newborn babes, long for the genuine intellectual milk, so that ye may grow by it,

ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.

Therefore because of the Lord, ye should submit to every human establishment, whether to a king as being supreme,

or to governors as being sent by him for vengeance of evil-doers and praise of well-doers.

As free, and not having your freedom as a cover-up of evil, but as bondmen of God.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children ye became, doing good, and not being afraid of anything fearful.

Likewise the husbands living together knowledgably, as with a weaker vessel, apportioning worth to the female as also joint-heirs of the grace of life, for your prayers not to be hindered.

Having a good conscience, so that, in what they speak against you as of evil-doers, they may be ashamed, those who revile your good behavior in Christ.

As each has received a gift, serving it for yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

If any man speaks, as oracles of God. If any man serves, as of ability as God supplies. So that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

But rejoice in so far as ye are partakers in the sufferings of the Christ, so that also at the revealing of his glory ye may rejoice, having exceeding joy.

For let not any man of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a busybody.

But if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this regard.

Therefore also let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls as to a faithful Creator by well-doing.

nor as domineering over the lots, but becoming examples of the flock.

Be sober, be vigilant. Your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom to devour.

By Silvanus, the faithful brother to you, as I reckon, I wrote because of a few things, exhorting and testifying this to be the TRUE grace of God in which ye stand.