5 Now the one who prepared us for this very thing is God,+ who gave us the spirit as a token of what is to come.*+

3 Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for according to his great mercy he gave us a new birth+ to a living hope+ through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,+ 4 to an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance.+ It is reserved in the heavens for you,+