1 Peter 1

¹Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect sojourners of the Dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

²according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: grace to you and peace be multiplied.

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

⁴to an inheritance imperishable and undefiled and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,

⁵who are being guarded by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

⁶In which you greatly rejoice, though for a little while now, if it is necessary, you have been grieved in various trials.

⁷so that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishing, though being proved through fire, may be found resulting in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

⁸whom, not having seen, you love; on whom, though not now seeing but believing, you exult with joy inexpressible and glorified,

⁹receiving the outcome of your faith, the salvation of souls.

¹⁰Concerning which salvation the prophets sought out and searched diligently, those who prophesied about the grace toward you,

¹¹searching into what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating, testifying beforehand the sufferings unto Christ and the glories after these things;

¹²to whom it was revealed that not for themselves but for you they were ministering these things, which now have been proclaimed to you through those who proclaimed the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, into which things angels desire to look.

¹³Therefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, set your hope fully upon the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹⁴as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to the former desires in your ignorance,

¹⁵but as the Holy One who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all your conduct,

¹⁶because it has been written: 'You shall be holy, because I am holy.'

¹⁷And if you invoke as Father the one who judges impartially according to each one's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your sojourn;

¹⁸knowing that you were redeemed not with perishable things, silver or gold, from your futile manner of life handed down from your fathers,

¹⁹but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot,

²⁰foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but revealed at the end of the times for your sake,

²¹who through him are trusting in God, the one who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

²²Having purified your souls in obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

²³having been begotten again not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God,

²⁴because 'All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass; the grass withered, and its flower fell away.'

²⁵but the word of the Lord abides forever. And this is the word that was proclaimed as good news to you.