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Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man"s religion is vain.

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.