Greeting

1 ^aPeter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who are elect exiles of the ^bDispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

Shepherd the Flock of God

1 So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a ^ywitness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: