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¹ MAKE to cease therefore from you all malice and all guile, and dissimulation, and envy, and slander;² and be as (new)-born babes, and be desirous of the word as of milk pure and spiritual, that by it you may increase unto life.³ If you have tasted and seen how good is the Lord,

⁴ unto whom you have come, who is the living stone whom men have rejected, yet (who is) chosen and honourable with Aloha.⁵ And you also as living stones are builded, and become a spiritual temple, and holy priests to offer sacrifices, which are acceptable before Aloha by Jeshu Meshiha.⁶ 6 For it is said in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone choice [fn] and honourable in the head of the corner: whosoever believeth in him shall not be ashamed. ⁷ 7 To you therefore is given this honour, to them who believe: but to them who are disobedient he is a rock [fn] of offence, ⁸ 8 or a stone [fn] of stumbling, and they are offended at him in not obeying the word, because to this they are set. ⁹ 9 But you are a chosen race, who minister as priests to the kingdom [fn] a holy people, a congregation redeemed to announce the praises of him who hath called you from darkness to his transcendant light: ¹⁰ those who before were not reputed a people, but now the people of Aloha; upon whom also mercies were not; but now, mercies are poured upon you.¹¹ MY beloved, I beseech you as strangers and as sojourners, be separate from all the lusts of the body which make wars against the soul.¹² And let your conversation be good before all men; and they who speak against you malicious words shall see your good deeds, and shall glorify Aloha in the day of the probation.

¹³ And be subject to all men for the sake of Aloha: to kings, on account of their authority;¹⁴ and to judges, because from him they are sent for the punishment of transgressors, and for the commendation of good works.¹⁵ For so is the will of Aloha, that by your comely works you may shut the mouth of fools who know not Aloha.¹⁶ As the sons of liberty, yet not as men who make their liberty a veil for their wickedness, but as the servants of Aloha.¹⁷ Honour all; your brethren love; and Aloha revere; and kings honour.¹⁸ And those servants who are among you, be subject to your masters with reverence; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the hard and the severe.¹⁹ For these are pleasing before Aloha, who, for the sake of a good conscience, endure the afflictions that come upon them unjustly.²⁰ For they who on account of their offences suffer tribulations, what praise have they ? But when you do well and they afflict you, and you endure, then doth your praise become great with Aloha.²¹ For unto this have you been called; because the Meshiha also hath died for us, and left us this example, that in his steps we may walk.²² Who did no sin, nor was guile found in his mouth;²³ who was reviled and reviled not, and suffered and threatened not, but delivered his cause to the Judge of righteousness;²⁴ 24 and took all our sins and upbore [fn] them in his body on the cross; that when dead to sin, in the righteousness of him we might live; for by his stripes you are healed, ²⁵ 25 who had wandered as sheep, and are returned now unto the Shepherd and Guardian [fn] of your souls.