who through Him trust in God that raised Him from the dead, and gave Him glory, that your faith and hope might be fixed in God.

For unto this are ye called; because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye might follow his steps.

Who Himself bare our sins in his own body on the cross, that we being dead to sins, might live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye are healed.

As Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust (that He might introduce us to God) being indeed put to death in the flesh, but raised to life by the Spirit:

For to this end was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but might live according to God in the spirit.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time;