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Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to God; nor yet for greed of monetary gain, but eagerly;

Likewise, you younger, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, shall himself restore, establish, strengthen, [and] firmly set [you].

By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I account [him], I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast therein.

Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those that have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, our God and Savior.

Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord;

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there was borne such a voice to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased:

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spoke from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment;

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

but whoever keeps his word, in him truly has the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:

I have written to you, little children, because you know the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

And the world passes away, and the desire thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever.

Look at what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and [such] we are. For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it did not know him.

Beloved, we are now children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

he that does sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. To this end was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Whoever is begotten of God does not sin, because his seed abides in him: and he can't sin, because he is begotten of God.