1 - Elders who <FI>are<Fi> among you, I exhort, who <FI>am<Fi> a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker,
2 - feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,
3 - neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,
4 - and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.
5 - In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;
6 - be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,
7 - all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.
8 - Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,
9 - whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.
10 - And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle <FI>you<Fi> ;
11 - to Him <FI>is<Fi> the glory, and the power--to the ages and the ages! Amen.
12 - Through Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, through few <FI>words<Fi> I did write, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye have stood.
13 - Salute you doth the <FI>assembly<Fi> in Babylon jointly elected, and Markus my son.
14 - Salute ye one another in a kiss of love; peace to you all who <FI>are<Fi> in Christ Jesus! Amen.
