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Peter's First Letter, Chapter 1
{1:1} Peter, an emissary of Yeshua the Messiah, to the chosen ones
who are living as foreigners in the Diaspora in Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, {1:2} according to the foreknowledge
of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey
Yeshua the Messiah and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and
peace be multiplied. {1:3} Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Yeshua the Messiah, who according to his great mercy became our father
again to a living hope through the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah
from the dead, {1:4} to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance
that doesn't fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, {1:5} who by the
power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be
revealed in the last time. {1:6} Wherein you greatly rejoice, though
now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in
various trials, {1:7} that the proof of your faith, which is more
precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may
be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of
Yeshua the Messiah--{1:8} whom not having known you love; in whom,
though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with
joy unspeakable and full of glory--{1:9} receiving the result of your
faith, the salvation of your souls. {1:10} Concerning this salvation,
the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the
grace that would come to you, {1:11} searching for who or what kind of
time the Spirit of Messiah, which was in them, pointed to, when he
predicted the sufferings of Messiah, and the glories that would follow
them. {1:12} To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to
you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to
you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit
sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
{1:13} Therefore [1>]prepare your minds for action,[<1] be sober and
set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the
revelation of Yeshua the Messiah--{1:14} as children of obedience, not
conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your
ignorance, {1:15} but just as he who called you is holy, you
yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; {1:16} because it is
written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."[2] {1:17} If you call on
him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each
man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in
reverent fear: {1:18} knowing that you were redeemed, not with
corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life
handed down from your fathers, {1:19} but with precious blood, as of a
faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Messiah; {1:20} who was
foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed
at the end of times for your sake, {1:21} who through him are
believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so
that your faith and hope might be in God.
{1:22} Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the
truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one
another from the heart fervently: {1:23} having been born again, not
of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God,
which lives and remains forever. {1:24} For,
"All flesh is like grass,
and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass.
The grass withers, and its flower falls;
{1:25} but the Lord's word endures forever."[3]
This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:13} literally, "gird up the waist of your mind" or "put on the
belt of the waist of your mind"
[2] {1:16} Leviticus 11:44-45
[3] {1:25} Isaiah 40:6-8
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