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1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers
 scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and
 Bithynia,
1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
 through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and
 sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and
 peace, be multiplied.
1:3 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,
1:4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that
 fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto
 salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need
 be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
1:7 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:
1:8 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:
1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, [even] the salvation of
 [your] souls.
1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched
 diligently, who prophesied of the grace [that should come] unto
 you:
1:11 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.
1:12 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.
1:13 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;
1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according
 to the former lusts in your ignorance:
1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in
 all manner of conversation;
1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
1:17 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:
1:18 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;
1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
 blemish and without spot:
1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the
 world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
1:21 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.
1:22 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:
1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
 incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for
 ever.
1:24 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:
1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the
 word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and
 hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that
 ye may grow thereby:
2:3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.
2:4 To whom coming, [as unto] a living stone, disallowed indeed
 of men, but chosen of God, [and] precious,
2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house,
 an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,
 acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I
 lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that
 believeth on him shall not be confounded.
2:7 Unto you therefore which believe [he is] precious: but unto
 them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders
 disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to
 them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto
 also they were appointed.
2:9 But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an
 holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the
 praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his
 marvellous light:
2:10 Which in time past [were] not a people, but [are] now the
 people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have
 obtained mercy.
2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims,
 abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that,
 whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by [your]
 good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of
 visitation.
2:13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's
 sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
2:14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for
 the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do
 well.
2:15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put
 to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
2:16 As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of
 maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
2:17 Honour all [men]. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour
 the king.
2:18 Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear; not
 only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
2:19 For this [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward
 God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
2:20 For what glory [is it], if, when ye be buffeted for your
 faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well,
 and suffer [for it], ye take it patiently, this [is] acceptable
 with God.
2:21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also
 suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow
 his steps:
2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
2:23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he
 suffered, he threatened not; but committed [himself] to him
 that judgeth righteously:
2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,
 that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by
 whose stripes ye were healed.
2:25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned
 unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
3:1 Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands;
 that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word
 be won by the conversation of the wives;
3:2 While they behold your chaste conversation [coupled] with
 fear.
3:3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of
 plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of
 apparel;
3:4 But [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in that which
 is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet
 spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
3:5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also,
 who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection
 unto their own husbands:
3:6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose
 daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid
 with any amazement.
3:7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to
 knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker
 vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that
 your prayers be not hindered.
3:8 Finally, [be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one of
 another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous:
3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but
 contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto