/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 CALLED
THAT YE SHOULD INHERIT A BLESSING.
/3-10- FOR HE THAT WILL LOVE LIFE
AND SEE GOOD DAYS
LET HIM REFRAIN HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL
AND HIS LIPS THAT THEY SPEAK NO GUILE-
/3-11- LET HIM ESCHEW EVIL
AND DO GOOD LET HIM SEEK PEACE
AND ENSUE IT.
/3-12- FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE OVER THE RIGHTEOUS
AND HIS EARS ARE OPEN UNTO THEIR PRAYERS- BUT THE FACE OF THE LORD IS AGAINST THEM THAT DO EVIL.
/3-13- AND WHO IS HE THAT WILL HARM YOU
IF YE BE FOLLOWERS OF THAT WHICH IS GOOD?
/3-14- BUT AND IF YE SUFFER FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE
HAPPY ARE YE- AND BE NOT AFRAID OF THEIR TERROR
NEITHER BE TROUBLED
/3-15- BUT SANCTIFY THE LORD GOD IN YOUR HEARTS- AND BE READY ALWAYS TO GIVE AN ANSWER TO EVERY MAN THAT ASKETH YOU A REASON OF THE HOPE THAT IS IN YOU WITH MEEKNESS AND FEAR-
/3-16- HAVING A GOOD CONSCIENCE THAT
WHEREAS THEY SPEAK EVIL OF YOU
AS OF EVILDOERS
THEY MAY BE ASHAMED THAT FALSELY ACCUSE YOUR GOOD CONVERSATION IN CHRIST.
/3-17- FOR IT IS BETTER
IF THE WILL OF GOD BE SO
THAT YE SUFFER FOR WELL DOING
THAN FOR EVIL DOING.
/3-18- FOR CHRIST ALSO HATH ONCE SUFFERED FOR SINS
THE JUST FOR THE UNJUST
THAT HE MIGHT BRING US TO GOD
BEING PUT TO DEATH IN THE FLESH
BUT QUICKENED BY THE SPIRIT-
/3-19- BY WHICH ALSO HE WENT AND PREACHED UNTO THE SPIRITS IN PRISON
/3-20- WHICH SOMETIME WERE DISOBEDIENT
WHEN ONCE THE LONGSUFFERING OF GOD WAITED IN THE DAYS OF NOAH
WHILE THE ARK WAS A PREPARING
WHEREIN FEW
THAT IS
EIGHT SOULS WERE SAVED BY WATER.
/3-21- THE LIKE FIGURE WHEREUNTO EVEN BAPTISM DOTH ALSO NOW SAVE US (NOT THE PUTTING AWAY OF THE FILTH OF THE FLESH
BUT THE ANSWER OF A GOOD CONSCIENCE TOWARD GOD
) BY THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST-
/3-22- WHO IS GONE INTO HEAVEN
AND IS ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD ANGELS AND AUTHORITIES AND POWERS BEING MADE SUBJECT UNTO HIM.
/4-1- FORASMUCH THEN AS CHRIST HATH SUFFERED FOR US IN THE FLESH
ARM YOURSELVES LIKEWISE WITH THE SAME MIND- FOR HE THAT HATH SUFFERED IN THE FLESH HATH CEASED FROM SIN
/4-2- THAT HE NO LONGER SHOULD LIVE THE REST OF HIS TIME IN THE FLESH TO THE LUSTS OF MEN
BUT TO THE WILL OF GOD.
/4-3- FOR THE TIME PAST OF OUR LIFE MAY SUFFICE US TO HAVE WROUGHT THE WILL OF THE GENTILES
WHEN WE WALKED IN LASCIVIOUSNESS
LUSTS
EXCESS OF WINE
REVELLINGS
BANQUETINGS
AND ABOMINABLE IDOLATRIES-
/4-4- WHEREIN THEY THINK IT STRANGE THAT YE RUN NOT WITH THEM TO THE SAME EXCESS OF RIOT
SPEAKING EVIL OF YOU-
/4-5- WHO SHALL GIVE ACCOUNT TO HIM THAT IS READY TO JUDGE THE QUICK AND THE DEAD.
/4-6- FOR FOR THIS CAUSE WAS THE GOSPEL PREACHED ALSO TO THEM THAT ARE DEAD
THAT THEY MIGHT BE JUDGED ACCORDING TO MEN IN THE FLESH
BUT LIVE ACCORDING TO GOD IN THE SPIRIT.
/4-7- BUT THE END OF ALL THINGS IS AT HAND- BE YE THEREFORE SOBER
AND WATCH UNTO PRAYER.
/4-8- AND ABOVE ALL THINGS HAVE FERVENT CHARITY AMONG YOURSELVES- FOR CHARITY SHALL COVER THE MULTITUDE OF SINS.
/4-9- USE HOSPITALITY ONE TO ANOTHER WITHOUT GRUDGING.
/4-10- AS EVERY MAN HATH RECEIVED THE GIFT
EVEN SO MINISTER THE SAME ONE TO ANOTHER
AS GOOD STEWARDS OF THE MANIFOLD GRACE OF GOD.
/4-11- IF ANY MAN SPEAK
LET HIM SPEAK AS THE ORACLES OF GOD IF ANY MAN MINISTER
LET HIM DO IT AS OF THE ABILITY WHICH GOD GIVETH- THAT GOD IN ALL THINGS MAY BE GLORIFIED THROUGH JESUS CHRIST
TO WHOM BE PRAISE AND DOMINION FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN.
/4-12- BELOVED
THINK IT NOT STRANGE CONCERNING THE FIERY TRIAL WHICH IS TO TRY YOU
AS THOUGH SOME STRANGE THING HAPPENED UNTO YOU-
/4-13- BUT REJOICE
INASMUCH AS YE ARE PARTAKERS OF CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS THAT
WHEN HIS GLORY SHALL BE REVEALED
YE MAY BE GLAD ALSO WITH EXCEEDING JOY.
/4-14- IF YE BE REPROACHED FOR THE NAME OF CHRIST
HAPPY ARE YE FOR THE SPIRIT OF GLORY AND OF GOD RESTETH UPON YOU- ON THEIR PART HE IS EVIL SPOKEN OF
BUT ON YOUR PART HE IS GLORIFIED.
/4-15- BUT LET NONE OF YOU SUFFER AS A MURDERER
OR AS A THIEF
OR AS AN EVILDOER
OR AS A BUSYBODY IN OTHER MEN'S MATTERS.
/4-16- YET IF ANY MAN SUFFER AS A CHRISTIAN
LET HIM NOT BE ASHAMED BUT LET HIM GLORIFY GOD ON THIS BEHALF.
/4-17- FOR THE TIME IS COME THAT JUDGMENT MUST BEGIN AT THE HOUSE OF GOD- AND IF IT FIRST BEGIN AT US
WHAT SHALL THE END BE OF THEM THAT OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL OF GOD?
/4-18- AND IF THE RIGHTEOUS SCARCELY BE SAVED
WHERE SHALL THE UNGODLY AND THE SINNER APPEAR?
/4-19- WHEREFORE LET THEM THAT SUFFER ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD COMMIT THE KEEPING OF THEIR SOULS TO HIM IN WELL DOING
AS UNTO A FAITHFUL CREATOR.
/5-1- THE ELDERS WHICH ARE AMONG YOU I EXHORT
WHO AM ALSO AN ELDER
AND A WITNESS OF THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST
AND ALSO A PARTAKER OF THE GLORY THAT SHALL BE REVEALED-
/5-2- FEED THE FLOCK OF GOD WHICH IS AMONG YOU
TAKING THE OVERSIGHT THEREOF
NOT BY CONSTRAINT
BUT WILLINGLY NOT FOR FILTHY LUCRE
BUT OF A READY MIND
/5-3- NEITHER AS BEING LORDS OVER GOD'S HERITAGE
BUT BEING ENSAMPLES TO THE FLOCK.
/5-4- AND WHEN THE CHIEF SHEPHERD SHALL APPEAR
YE SHALL RECEIVE A CROWN OF GLORY THAT FADETH NOT AWAY.
/5-5- LIKEWISE
YE YOUNGER
SUBMIT YOURSELVES UNTO THE ELDER. YEA
ALL OF YOU BE SUBJECT ONE TO ANOTHER
AND BE CLOTHED WITH HUMILITY- FOR GOD RESISTETH THE PROUD
AND GIVETH GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.
/5-6- HUMBLE YOURSELVES THEREFORE UNDER THE MIGHTY HAND OF GOD
THAT HE MAY EXALT YOU IN DUE TIME-
/5-7- CASTING ALL YOUR CARE UPON HIM FOR HE CARETH FOR YOU.
/5-8- BE SOBER
BE VIGILANT BECAUSE YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL
AS A ROARING LION
WALKETH ABOUT
SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR-
/5-9- WHOM RESIST STEDFAST IN THE FAITH
KNOWING THAT THE SAME AFFLICTIONS ARE ACCOMPLISHED IN YOUR BRETHREN THAT ARE IN THE WORLD.
/5-10- BUT THE GOD OF ALL GRACE
WHO HATH CALLED US UNTO HIS ETERNAL GLORY BY CHRIST JESUS
AFTER THAT YE HAVE SUFFERED A WHILE
MAKE YOU PERFECT
STABLISH
STRENGTHEN
SETTLE YOU.
/5-11- TO HIM BE GLORY AND DOMINION FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN.
/5-12- BY SILVANUS
A FAITHFUL BROTHER UNTO YOU
AS I SUPPOSE
I HAVE WRITTEN BRIEFLY
EXHORTING
AND TESTIFYING THAT THIS IS THE TRUE GRACE OF GOD WHEREIN YE STAND.
/5-13- THE CHURCH THAT IS AT BABYLON
ELECTED TOGETHER WITH YOU
SALUTETH YOU AND SO DOTH MARCUS MY SON.
/5-14- GREET YE ONE ANOTHER WITH A KISS OF CHARITY. PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL THAT ARE IN CHRIST JESUS. AMEN.
