By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations:

For which salvation the prophets sought and inquired anxiously, they having prophesied of the grace to you:

Searching for whom or what time the Spirit of Christ which in them manifested, testifying beforehand the sufferings to Christ, and the glories after these.

To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were serving these things, which now have been again proclaimed to you by them having announced the good news in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; into which angels eagerly desire to stoop and creep.

Therefore honour to you believing: and to the unbelieving, the stone which the builders disapproved of has become the head of the corner,

And a stone of stumble, and rock of offence, they disbelieving the word stumble: to which also they were set.

Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;

But the hidden man of the heart, in the uncorruptedness of a mild and quiet spirit, which is before God of great price.

In which also having gone, he proclaimed to the spirits in prison;

They having been once unbelieving, when the longsuffering of God waited in Noah's days, the ark being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

By which also the figure, immersion, now saves us (not by laying aside of the filth of the flesh, but the question of a good. consciousness toward God,) by the rising up of Jesus Christ:

In which they are astonished, you not running together in the same pouring out of lavish expense, blaspheming:

If any speak, as the oracles of God; if any serve, as of the strength which God furnishes: that in all God might be praised by Jesus Christ, in whom is the glory and strength for the time of times. Amen.

The elders among you I beseech, a fellow elder, and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a participator of the glory which is about to be revealed:

Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;

By Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, I wrote briefly, beseeching, and bearing testimony this to be the true grace of God in which ye stand.

Greet one another in a kiss of love. Peace to all you which in Christ Jesus. Amen.