OET-RV 1PET Chapter 1

3 May God, the father of our master Yeshua the messiah be blessed. He’s the one who, because of his incredible mercy, births us into living hope through the death and coming back to life of Yeshua the messiah. 4 Now we have an inheritance that can’t be destroyed or ruined and never diminishes. It’s kept in the heavens for you all 5 who are guarded through faith by God’s power, because salvation is ready to be revealed in the final age.

6 This salvation brings some happiness now, although offset by the sorrow of various trials that you all go through 7 in order that your faith will be purified by fire, like gold but even more precious because gold perishes. Then your faith will lead to praise and glory and honour when Yeshua the messiah is revealed, 8 the one you all love although you’ve never seen him. Yet you all believe and because of that you are more happy than you all can even show AND HAVING BEEN GLORIFIED, 9 you’ll receive the result of your faith which is the salvation of your souls.

10 The prophets wanted that salvation and searched for it, even while speaking about the grace which you all would experience. 11 They tried to discover which person or what time that the messiah’s spirit within them was telling them, having previously testified that the messiah would suffer but afterwards would be GLORIOUS. 12 It was shown to them that they weren’t just serving themselves but were serving you as they declared all the same things that have been preached to you all by the holy spirit who was sent from heaven. Even God’s messengers in heaven wanted to know more about those things.

13 So take this seriously and get your minds prepared, and putting your full hope on the grace that will be brought to you all by the revelation of Yeshua the messiah. 14 As people who want to obey, don’t conform to your earlier desires that came from your ignorance, 15 but just as God who called you is holy, your yourselves need to be holy in all your conduct, 16 [ref]because it’s been written that ‘you all will be holy because I am holy.’

17 As since you call on the father who impartially judges each person according to their actions, then continue to obey him even as you all live in foreign lands, 18 knowing that when you all were in slavery due to your poor conduct that you inherited from your ancestors, you weren’t bought out of that by payment of perishable things like silver or gold, 19 but by the precious blood of the messiah—the unblemished and spotless lamb. 20 He had been foreknown before the creation of the world, yet he was only revealed recently for the sake of all of you 21 who believe in God through him. God was the one who raised him from the dead and honoured him, so that your faith and hope would be in God.

22 Since your souls have been purified by obeying the truth, now you should love each other from your hearts and without hypocrisy. 23 You’ve been born again, not by some physical thing that will perish, but of indestructible material—God’s message that’s alive and lives on 24 because it’s written:[ref]

‘All flesh is like grass,

and the beauty of our bodies like its flower.

The grass will wither and its flower will drop

25 but the master’s message will last till the end of the age.’

And that’s the good message that has been preached to all of you.