I Peter
1:1 Peter,
an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1:2
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
through sanctification of the Spirit, (o. pneuma) unto obedience and sprinkling
of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
1:3 Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant
mercy has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead,
1:4 To
an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved
in heaven for you,
1:5
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time.
1:6
Wherein all of you greatly rejoice, though now for a season,
if need be, all of you are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
1:7 That
the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes,
though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory
at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
1:8
Whom having not seen, all of you love; in whom, though now
all of you see him not, yet believing, all of you rejoice with joy unspeakable
and full of glory:
1:9
Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your
souls.
1:10 Of
which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied
of the grace that should come unto you:
1:11
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit (o. pneuma)
of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings
of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
1:12
Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but
unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them
that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Spirit (o. pneuma) sent down
from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
1:13
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and
hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation
of Jesus Christ;
1:14 As
obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in
your ignorance:
1:15 But
as he which has called you is holy, so be all of you holy in all manner of conversation;
1:16 Because
it is written, Be all of you holy; for I am holy.
1:17
And if all of you call on the Father, who without respect
of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning
here in fear:
1:18 Forasmuch
as all of you know that all of you were not redeemed with corruptible things,
as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your
fathers;
1:19 But
with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1:20 Who
verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in
these last times for you,
1:21
Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the
dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
1:22
Seeing all of you have purified your souls in obeying the
truth through the Spirit (o. pneuma) unto sincere love of the brethren, see that
all of you love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1:23
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
by the word (o. logos) of God, which lives and abides for ever.
1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the
flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away:
1:25 But
the word (o. rhema) of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the word (o. rhema)
which by the gospel is preached unto you.
2:1
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies,
and envies, all evil speaking,
2:2
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that
all of you may grow thereby:
2:3
If so be all of you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
2:4 To
whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God,
and precious,
2:5 All
of you also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood,
to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
2:6
Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold,
I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him
shall not be confounded.
2:7
Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto
them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is
made the head of the corner,
2:8
And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to
them which stumble at the word, (o. logos) being disobedient: unto which also
they were appointed.
2:9
But all of you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,
an holy nation, an exclusive people; that all of you should show forth the praises
of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
2:10
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people
of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
2:11
Dearly beloved, I plead to you as strangers and pilgrims,
abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
2:12
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that,
whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which
they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
2:13
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's
sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
2:14
Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for
the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
2:15 For
so is the will of God, that with well doing all of you may put to silence the
ignorance of foolish men:
2:16
As free, and not using your liberty for a coat of maliciousness,
but as the servants of God.
2:17
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the
king.
2:18 Servants,
be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but
also to the perverse.
2:19
For this deserves giving of thanks, if a man for conscience
toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
2:20
For what glory is it, if, when all of you be buffeted for
your faults, all of you shall take it patiently? but if, when all of you do well,
and suffer for it, all of you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
2:21 For
even hereunto were all of you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving
us an example, that all of you should follow his steps:
2:22
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
2:23 Who,
when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but
committed himself to him that judges righteously:
2:24
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,
that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes
all of you were healed.
2:25
For all of you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned
unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
3:1
Likewise, all of you wives, be in subjection to your own
husbands; that, if any obey not the word, (o. logos) they also may without the
word (o. logos) be won by the conversation of the wives;
3:2
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with
(o. rhema) fear.
3:3 Whose
adorning let it not be that outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing
of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
3:4
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which
is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, (o. pneuma)
which is in the sight of God of great price.
3:5
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also,
who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
3:6 Even
as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters all of you are, as long
as all of you do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
3:7
Likewise, all of you husbands, dwell with them according
to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being
heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
3:8 Finally,
be all of you all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren,
be pitiful, be courteous:
3:9
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but
contrariwise blessing; knowing that all of you are thereunto called, that all
of you should inherit a blessing.
3:10
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain
his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
3:11
Let him shun evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and
pursue it.
3:12 For
the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their
prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
3:13
And who is he that will harm you, if all of you be followers
of that which is good?
3:14
But and if all of you suffer for righteousness' sake, happy
are all of you: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
3:15 But
sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to
every man that asks you a reason (o. logos) of the hope that is in you with meekness
and fear:
3:16 Having
a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they
may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
3:17
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that all of
you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
3:18
For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for
the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but
quickened by the Spirit: (o. pneuma)
3:19
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits (o.
pneuma) in prison;
3:20
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering
of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few,
that is, eight souls were saved by water.
3:21
The like figure unto which even baptism does also now save
us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience
toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
3:22
Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God;
angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
4:1
Forasmuch then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh,
arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered in the flesh
has ceased from sin;
4:2
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the
flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
4:3
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought
the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine,
revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
4:4
Wherein they think it strange that all of you run not with
them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
4:5
Who shall give account (o. logos) to him that is ready to
judge the quick and the dead.
4:6
For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them
that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live
according to God in the spirit. (o. pneuma)
4:7
But the end of all things is at hand: be all of you therefore
sober, and watch unto prayer.
4:8
And above all things have fervent love (o. agape) among
yourselves: for love (o. agape) shall cover the multitude of sins.
4:9
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
4:10 As every
man has received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards
of the manifold grace of God.
4:11
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if
any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God gives: that God in
all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion
for ever and ever. Amen.
4:12
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial
which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
4:13
But rejoice, inasmuch as all of you are partakers of Christ's
sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, all of you may be glad also
with exceeding joy.
4:14
If all of you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy
are all of you; for the spirit (o. pneuma) of glory and of God rests upon you:
on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
4:15 But
let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as
a busybody in other men's matters.
4:16
Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed;
but let him glorify God on this behalf.
4:17
For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house
of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not
the gospel of God?
4:18
And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the
ungodly and the sinner appear?
4:19
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of
God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful
Creator.
5:1 The
elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the
sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
5:2 Feed
the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint,
but willingly; not for filthy illegal gain, but of a ready mind;
5:3
Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples
to the flock.
5:4 And
when the chief Shepherd shall appear, all of you shall receive a crown of glory
that fades not away.
5:5
Likewise, all of you younger, submit yourselves unto the
elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility:
for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.
5:6
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God,
that he may exalt you in due time:
5:7
Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.
5:8 Be sober,
be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about,
seeking whom he may devour:
5:9
Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same
afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
5:10
But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal
glory by Christ Jesus, after that all of you have suffered a while, make you perfect,
establish, strengthen, settle you.
5:11
To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
5:12 By Silvanus,
a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting,
and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein all of you stand.
5:13 The
church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, salutes you; and so does
Marcus my son.
5:14 Greet
all of you one another with a kiss of love. (o. agape) Peace be with you all that
are in Christ Jesus. Amen.