1Peter, apostle of Jesus, the Christ, to the strangers scattered in Pontus, in Galatia, in Cappadocia, in Asia, and in Bithynia, 2chosen (according to the foreknowledge of God the Father) in sanctification of the Spirit, to obey and be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus, the Christ, Grace and peace, be multiplied unto you. 3Praised [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Christ, who according to his great mercy has begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus, the Christ, from the dead, 4unto the incorruptible inheritance that cannot be defiled and that does not fade away, conserved in the heavens for you, 5who are kept in the virtue of God by faith, to attain unto the saving health which is made ready to be manifested in the last time. 6In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are afflicted in diverse temptations, 7that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold (which perishes, nevertheless it is tried with fire), might be found unto praise and glory and honour when Jesus, the Christ, is made manifest; 8whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though at present ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory; 9receiving the end of your faith, [even] the saving health of your souls. 10Of which saving health the prophets, (who prophesied of the grace that was to come in you) have enquired and searched diligently; 11searching when and in what point of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, which announced beforehand the afflictions that were to come upon the Christ, and the glory that should follow them. 12Unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves, but unto us they did administer the things, which are now announced unto you by those that have preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven, which things the angels desire to look into. 13Therefore, having the loins of your understanding girded with temperance, wait perfectly in the grace that is presented unto you when Jesus, the Christ, is manifested unto you, 14as obedient sons, not conforming yourselves with the former desires that you had before in your ignorance, 15but as he who has called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16for it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 17And if ye invoke as Father, he who without respect of persons judges according to the work of each one, converse in fear the entire time of your sojourning [here], 18knowing that ye have been ransomed from your vain conversation (which you received from your fathers), not with corruptible things [like] silver and gold, 19but with the precious blood of the Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without contamination, 20already ordained from before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for love of you, 21who by him do believe God, who raised him up from the dead and has given him glory: that your faith and hope might be in God. 22Having purified your souls in the obedience of the truth, by the Spirit, in unfeigned brotherly love, love one another with a pure heart fervently, 23being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever. 24For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, 25but the word of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.: