1. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2. according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!
3. Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,
4. to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,
5. who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,
6. in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,