Show hospitality to one another without complaining.

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

Greet one another with a loving kiss. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

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

And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.

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

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.

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.

So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin,

So as your fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings and as one who shares in the glory that will be revealed, I urge the elders among you:

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.

Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble.

For this finds God’s favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.

Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or as a troublemaker.

Be subject to every human institution for the Lord’s sake, whether to a king as supreme

But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear such a name.

And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of the ungodly and sinners?

Be sober and alert. Your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is on the prowl looking for someone to devour.