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In this section Peter addressed the church community and gave them words of encouragement. First, he addressed the leaders and commanded them to be faithful in looking after the believers. He then addressed younger men in the church, and finally the whole community. He concluded this section by reminding them of God’s faithfulness.
Some other headings for this section include:
Leading and Living in God’s Flock (NET)
Advice for Elders and Young Men (NLT)
Peter reminded his readers that Satan was their enemy and they needed to remain alert and steadfast. God would remain faithful to them and would bring them through their suffering to heaven.
To Him be the power forever and ever. Amen.
His power/authority lasts forever. Amen.
He is the one who rules for all time. Indeed, this is true!
To Him be the power forever and ever: The BSB has supplied the word be. In the Greek text there is no verb in this sentence. So there are two ways of understanding this verse:
It is a statement of what is already true. For example:
To him belongs the power forever. (NET) (CEV, NLT, NJB, REB, NCV, GW, NET)See Selwyn page 241, Achtemeier page 246, Michaels page 304, Marshall page 173.
It is a prayer or the expression of a desire that something would happen. For example:
To him be the dominion for ever and ever. (RSV) (BSB, KJV, NASB, NIV, RSV, GNT)
It is recommended that you follow interpretation (1). This is the view of the majority of commentators.
forever and ever: There is a textual problem here:
It says for ever. For example:
forever (NET) (GW, GNT, NET)
It says forever and ever. For example:
for ever and ever (REB) (BSB, KJV, REB, NIV, NASB, RSV, NJB, NCV)
It is recommended that you follow option (1), which is has the strongest support among scholars.
The expression forever and ever means “eternally, for all time.” It is similar in meaning to “eternal” in 5:10b. Another way to translate this expression is:
for all time
Amen: In this context, the word Amen means “This is true!” or “Truly, this is so!” See how you translated this word in 4:11d.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
αὐτῷ τὸ κράτος
˱to˲_him_‹be› (Some words not found in SR-GNT: αὐτῷ τό κράτος εἰς τούς αἰῶνας Τῶν αἰώνων Ἀμήν)
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of power, you can express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [May he rule powerfully]
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the CNTR.