3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 4 To an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time 6 Wherein __ ye greatly rejoice though now for a season if need be ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations 7 That the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold that perisheth though __ it be tried with fire might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ 8 Whom having not seen ye love in whom though now ye see him not yet believing ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory 9 Receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your souls
10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you 11 Searching what __ or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow __ 12 Unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven which things the angels desire to look into
13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind be sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ 14 As obedient children not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance 15 But as he which hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation 16 Because it is written Be ye holy for I am holy
17 And if ye call on the Father who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work pass the time of your sojourning here in fear 18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers 19 But with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot 20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you 21 Who by him do believe in God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory that your faith and hope might be in God
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently 23 Being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever
24 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of grass The grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away
25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you
