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BOOK 60

 FIRST LETTER FROM PETER

CHAPTER 1
1 Peter, an apostle of
Jesus Christ, to the strangers
scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
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.
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.

CHAPTER 2
1 Wherefore laying aside all
malice, and all guile, and
hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil
speakings,
2 As newborn babes, desire the
sincere milk of the word, that ye may
grow thereby:
3 If so be ye have tasted that
the Lord is gracious.
4 To whom coming, as unto a
living stone, disallowed indeed of
men, but chosen of God, and precious,
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.
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.
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,
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.
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:
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.
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you
as strangers and pilgrims, abstain
from fleshly lusts, which war against
the soul;
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.
13 Submit yourselves to every
ordinance of man for the Lord's sake:
whether it be to the king, as
supreme;
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.
15 For so is the will of God,
that with well doing ye may put to
silence the ignorance of foolish men:
16 As free, and not using your
liberty for a cloak of maliciousness,
but as the servants of God.
17 Honour all men. Love the
brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the
king.
18 Servants, be subject to your
masters with all fear; not only to
the good and gentle, but also to the
froward.
19 For this is thankworthy, if a
man for conscience toward God endure
grief, suffering wrongfully.
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.
21 For even hereunto were ye
called: because Christ also suffered
for us, leaving us an example, that
ye should follow his steps:
22 Who did no sin, neither was
guile found in his mouth:
23 Who, when he was reviled,
reviled not again; when he suffered,
he threatened not; but committed
himself to him that judgeth
righteously:
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.
25 For ye were as sheep going
astray; but are now returned unto the
Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

CHAPTER 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;
2 While they behold your chaste
conversation coupled with fear.
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;
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.
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:
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.
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.
8 Finally, be ye all of one
mind, having compassion one of
another, love as brethren, be
pitiful, be courteous:
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.
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:
11 Let him eschew evil, and do
good; let him seek peace, and ensue
it.
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.
13 And who is he that will harm
you, if ye be followers of that which
is good?
14 But and if ye suffer for
righteousness'sake, happy are ye: and
be not afraid of their terror,
neither be troubled;
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:
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.
17 For it is better, if the will
of God be so, that ye suffer for well
doing, than for evil doing.
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:
19 By which also he went and
preached unto the spirits in prison;
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.
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:
22 Who is gone into heaven, and
is on the right hand of God; angels
and authorities and powers being made
subject unto him.

CHAPTER 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;
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.
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 Wherein they think it strange
that ye run not with them to the same
excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
5 Who shall give account to him
that is ready to judge the quick and
the dead.
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.
7 But the end of all things is
at hand: be ye therefore sober, and
watch unto prayer.
8 And above all things have
fervent charity among yourselves: for
charity shall cover the multitude of
sins.
9 Use hospitality one to another
without grudging.
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.
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.
12 Beloved, think it not strange
concerning the fiery trial which is
to try you, as though some strange
thing happened unto you:
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.
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.
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.
16 Yet if any man suffer as a
Christian, let him not be ashamed;
but let him glorify God on this
behalf.
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?
18 And if the righteous scarcely
be saved, where shall the ungodly and
the sinner appear?
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.

CHAPTER 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:
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;
3 Neither as being lords over
God's heritage, but being ensamples
to the flock.
4 And when the chief Shepherd
shall appear, ye shall receive a
crown of glory that fadeth not away.
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.
6 Humble yourselves therefore
under the mighty hand of God, that he
may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon
him; for he careth for you.
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because
your adversary the devil, as a
roaring lion, walketh about, seeking
whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist stedfast in the
faith, knowing that the same
afflictions are accomplished in your
brethren that are in the world.
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.
11 To him be glory and dominion
for ever and ever. Amen.
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.
13 The church that is at
Babylon, elected together with you,
saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my
son.
14 Greet ye one another with a
kiss of charity. Peace be with you
all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.