Show hospitality to one another without complaining.

that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,

To him belongs the power forever. Amen.

They probed into what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he testified beforehand about the sufferings appointed for Christ and his subsequent glory.

Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.

or to governors as those he commissions to punish wrongdoers and praise those who do good.

in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

For the culmination of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of prayer.

Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Concerning this salvation, the prophets who predicted the grace that would come to you searched and investigated carefully.

You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

and a stumbling-stone and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. But the Lord’s face is against those who do evil.

who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.