1 E lders who among you, I exhort, who a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker,

2 f eed the flock of God that among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

3 n either as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

4 a nd at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.

5 I n 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 b e humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,

7 a ll your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

8 B e sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

9 w hom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.

10 A nd 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;

11 t o Him the glory, and the power -- to the ages and the ages! Amen.

12 T hrough Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, through few I did write, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye have stood.

13 S alute you doth the in Babylon jointly elected, and Markus my son.

14 S alute ye one another in a kiss of love; peace to you all who in Christ Jesus! Amen.