2according 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!
3Blessed [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,
4to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,
5who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,
6in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,
7that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
8whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,