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

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

For who is going to harm you if you are devoted to what is good?

In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison,

They will face a reckoning before Jesus Christ who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.

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

Then when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that never fades away.

The church in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you, and so does Mark, my son.

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men,

Therefore, dear friends, since you are waiting for these things, strive to be found at peace, without spot or blemish, when you come into his presence.

Thus we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

Nevertheless you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.

Dear friend, you demonstrate faithfulness by whatever you do for the brothers (even though they are strangers).

And have mercy on those who waver;