8. Be vigilant, watch. Your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour.
9. Whom resist, stedfast in faith, knowing that the selfsame sufferings are accomplished in your brotherhood which is in the world.
10. But the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered for a little while, himself shall make perfect, stablish, strengthen, ground:
11. to him be the glory and the might for the ages of the ages. Amen.
12. By Silvanus, the faithful brother, as I suppose, I have written to you briefly; exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which ye stand.
13. She that is elected with you in Babylon salutes you, and Marcus my son.
14. Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace be with you all who are in Christ.