by casting all your cares on him because he cares for you.

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.

To him belongs the power forever. Amen.

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.

And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct,

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

He committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth.

And he must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.

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

But in fact, if you happen to suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. But do not be terrified of them or be shaken.

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.

Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God.

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.

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

For it says in scripture, “Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and priceless cornerstone, and whoever believes in him will never be put to shame.”

For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps.