MSTC(i)
3 Blessed be God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which through his abundant mercy begat us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from death,
4 to enjoy an inheritance immortal, and undefiled, and that perisheth not; reserved in heaven for you
5 which are kept by the power of God through salvation, which salvation is prepared already to be showed in the last time,
6 in the which time ye shall rejoice, though now for a season — if need require — ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations,
7 that your faith, once tried, being much more precious than gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto laud, glory, and honour, at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
8 whom ye have not seen and yet love him, in whom even now, though ye see him not, yet ye believe, and rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorious:
9 receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
10 Of which salvation have the prophets enquired, and searched, which prophesied of the grace that should come unto you;
11 searching when, or at what time, the spirit of Christ which was in them should signify — which spirit testified before — the passions that should come unto Christ, and the glory that should follow after.
12 Unto which prophets it was declared, that not unto themselves, but unto us, they should minister the things which are now showed unto you, of them which, by the holy ghost sent down from heaven, have preached unto you the things which the angels desire to behold.