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. →

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. →

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. →

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. →

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; {which. →