Greeting
1 Peter,an apostle of Jesus Christ:
To the temporary residentsdispersedin Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,chosen
2 according to the foreknowledgeof God the Father and set apart by the Spiritfor obedienceand for sprinkling with the bloodof Jesus Christ.
May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
A Living Hope
3 Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.According to His great mercy,He has given us a new birthinto a living hopethrough the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
4 and into an inheritance that is imperishable,uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heavenfor you.
5 You are being protected by God’s powerthrough faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
6 You rejoice in this,though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials
7 so that the genuineness of your faith— more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire— may resultinpraise, glory, and honorat the revelation of Jesus Christ.
8 You love Him,though you have not seenHim. And though not seeing Him now, you believe in Him and rejoicewith inexpressible and glorious joy,
9 because you are receiving the goal of yourfaith, the salvation of your souls.
10 Concerning this salvation, the prophetswho prophesied about the grace that would come to you searched and carefully investigated.
11 They inquired into what time or what circumstancesthe Spirit of Christwithin them was indicating when He testified in advanceto the messianic sufferingsand the gloriesthat would follow.
12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you. These things have now been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to youby the Holy Spirit sent from heaven.Angels desire to look into these things.
A Call to Holy Living
13 Therefore, with your minds ready for action,be seriousand set your hopecompletely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelationof Jesus Christ.
14 As obedient children,do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.
15 But as the One who called youis holy,you also are to be holy in all your conduct;
16 for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.
17 And if you address as Father the One who judges impartiallybased on each one’s work,you are to conduct yourselves in fearduring the time of your temporary residence.
18 For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of lifeinherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,
19 but with the precious blood of Christ,like that of a lambwithout defect or blemish.
20 He was chosenbefore the foundation of the world but was revealed at the end of the timesfor you
21 who through Him are believers in God,who raised Him from the deadand gave Him glory,so that your faith and hope are in God.
22 By obedience to the truth,having purified yourselvesfor sincere love of the brothers, love one anotherearnestlyfrom a pureheart,
23 since you have been born again— not of perishable seedbut of imperishable — through the living and enduring word of God.
24 For
All flesh is like grass,
and all its glorylike a flower of the grass.
The grass withers, and the flower falls,
25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.
And this is the word that was preached as the gospel to you.
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