[1] Elders who [are] among you, I exhort [you], [as] a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a partaker of the glory about to be revealed, [2] feed the flock of God that [is] among you, overseeing not by compulsion, but willingly, neither for shameful gain, but eagerly, [3] neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but becoming patterns for the flock, [4] and the Chief Shepherd having appeared, you will receive the unfading garland of glory. [5] In like manner, you young [ones], be subject to elders, and all subjecting yourselves to one another; clothe yourselves with humble-mindedness, because God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble; [6] be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that He may exalt you in good time, [7] having cast all your care on Him, because He cares for you. [8] Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the Devil walks around as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may swallow up, [9] whom you must resist, steadfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings of your brotherhood to be accomplished in the world. [10] And the God of all grace, who called you to His perpetual glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle [you]; [11] to Him [is] the glory and the power through the ages and the ages! Amen. [12] Through Silvanus, the faithful brother as I reckon, I wrote through few [words] to you, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which you have stood. [13] She in Babylon chosen with you greets you, and my son Marcus. [14] Greet one another in a kiss of love. Peace to you all who [are] in Christ Jesus! Amen.
