[1 Peter 1]

 

             ^1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen, the travelers who are from the dispersion from Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, ^1:2 according-to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the holiness of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: grace to you^° and may peace be multiplied.

 

             ^1:3 Gracious^* is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according-to his much mercy has birthed us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ^1:4 into an incorruptible, undefiled and unfading inheritance which has been guarded in the heavens ^*for you^°, ^1:5 who are guarded through faith in the power of God, into a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ^1:6 In which you^° are glad now, if it is essential for a few moments you^° were made sorrowful in various tests, ^1:7 in-order-that the trial of your^° faith being much more precious than gold which perishes, even now you are tested through fire, may be found ^*for praise and honor and to glory in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

             ^1:8 You^° love^* whom you^° have not seen {Or: known}, now you^° believe into whom you^° do not see; you^° are glad with unspeakable joy and have been glorified in him; ^1:9 getting for yourselves the end of your^° faith, that is the salvation of your^° souls. ^1:10 Concerning which salvation, the prophets, who prophesied concerning the favor, the one coming to you^°, sought out and utterly searched out, ^1:11 searching which time or what sort of time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating, while testifying beforehand of the sufferings ^*for Christ and the glories following after these things. ^1:12 To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you^°, they were serving the same things which now were reported to you^° through the ones who proclaimed the good-news to you^° in the Holy Spirit, after he was sent forth from heaven, into which things messengers desire to peer.

 

             ^1:13 Hence you^° girded up the hips of your^° mind, while being sober, hope^° completely upon the grace being brought to you^° at the revelation of Jesus Christ, ^1:14 like children of obedience not shaping yourselves in your^° former lusts in the time of your^° ignorance, ^1:15 but according-to the one who called you^°, who is holy, you^° yourselves also become^° holy in all your^° conduct, ^1:16 because it has been written, ‘Become^° holy, because I am holy.’ {Lev 11:44-45, 19:2, 20:7,26} ^1:17 And if you^° call upon the Father, who impartially judges according-to the work of each one, conduct^° yourselves in fear during the time of your^° foreign residency here, ^1:18 knowing that you^° were redeemed from your^° futile conduct handed-down from your^° forefathers not with corruptible things like with silver or with gold. ^1:19 But like that of an unblemished and unstained lamb, you were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, ^1:20 who indeed, was known beforehand, before the conception of the world, but was manifested in the last times because of you^°, ^1:21 who believe through him in God, who raised him up from the dead and gave him glory, so-then your^° faith and hope might be in God. ^1:22 You^° have purified your^° souls in the obedience to the truth through the Spirit toward non-pretended brotherly-love, intensely love^*° one another from a clean heart, ^1:23 you^° have been born again, not out-of corruptible seed, but from the incorruptible, through the word of God, which is living and remaining forever. ^1:24 Because, ‘All flesh is like grass and all the glory of man is like the flower of grass. The grass dried up and its flower fell off. ^1:25 But the declaration of the Lord is abiding forever.’ {Isa 40:6-9} And this is the declaration of the good-news which was proclaimed to you^°.