\NormalFont\ShortTitle{1 Peter}
{\MT Peter’s First Letter

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Peter,
an
apostle
of
Jesus
Christ,
to
the
strangers
dispersed through
Pontus,
Galatia,
Cappadocia,
Asia,
and
Bithynia,
elect,
\VS{2}According
to
the
foreknowledge
of
God
the
Father, unto
the
sanctification
of
the
Spirit, unto
obedience
and sprinkling
of
the
blood
of
Jesus
Christ:
Grace unto
you
and
peace
be
multiplied.
\VS{3}Blessed
be
the
God
and
Father
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
who
according
to
his
great
mercy hath regenerated
us unto
a lively
hope,
by
the
resurrection
of
Jesus
Christ
from
the
dead,
\VS{4}Unto
an
inheritance incorruptible,
and
undefiled,
and
that can
not
fade,
reserved
in
heaven
for
you,
\VS{5}Who,
by
the
power
of
God,
are
kept
by
faith unto
salvation,
ready
to
be
revealed
in
the
last
time.
\VS{6}Wherein
you shall
greatly
rejoice,
if
now
you
must
be
for
a
little
time
made
sorrowful
in divers temptations:
\VS{7}That
the trial
of
your
faith (much
more
precious
than
gold
which
is tried
by
the
fire)
may
be
found unto
praise
and
glory
and honour
at
the appearing
of
Jesus
Christ:
\VS{8}Whom having
not
seen,
you
love:
in
whom
also
now,
though
you
see
him
not,
you
believe:
and
believing
shall
rejoice
with
joy unspeakable
and
glorified;
\VS{9}Receiving
the
end
of
your
faith, even
the
salvation
of
your
souls.
\VS{10}Of
which
salvation
the
prophets
have inquired
and diligently
searched,
who
prophesied
of
the
grace
to come
in
you.
\VS{11}Searching
what
or
what manner
of
time
the
Spirit
of
Christ
in
them
did signify:
when
it foretold
those
sufferings
that
are
in
Christ,
and
the
glories
that
should follow:
\VS{12}To
whom
it
was
revealed,
that
not
to
themselves,
but
to
you
they
ministered
those
things
which
are
now declared
to
you
by
them
that
have
preached
the
gospel
to
you,
the
Holy Ghost
being
sent down
from
heaven,
on
whom
the
angels
desire
to
look.
\VS{13}Wherefore having
the
loins
of
your
mind girt up,
being
sober,
trust perfectly
in
the
grace
which
is offered
you
in
the
revelation
of
Jesus
Christ,
\VS{14}As
children
of
obedience,
not fashioned
according
to
the
former
desires
of
your
ignorance:
\VS{15}But
according
to
him
that hath
called
you,
who
is
holy,
be
you
also
in
all
manner
of conversation
holy:
\VS{16}Because
it
is
written:
You shall
be
holy,
for
I
am
holy.
\VS{17}And
if
you invoke
as
Father
him
who,
without
respect
of persons, judgeth
according
to
every
one’s
work: converse
in
fear
during
the
time
of
your sojourning
here.
\VS{18}Knowing
that
you
were
not
redeemed
with
corruptible
things
as
gold
or
silver,
from
your
vain conversation
of
the tradition
of
your fathers:
\VS{19}But
with
the
precious
blood
of
Christ,
as
of
a
lamb unspotted
and undefiled,
\VS{20}Foreknown
indeed
before
the
foundation
of
the
world,
but
manifested
in
the
last
times
for
you,
\VS{21}Who
through
him
are
faithful
in
God,
who
raised
him
up
from
the
dead,
and hath
given
him
glory,
that
your
faith
and
hope
might
be
in
God.
\VS{22}Purifying
your
souls
in
the
obedience
of charity,
with
a
brotherly
love,
from
a
sincere
heart
love
one
another
earnestly:
\VS{23}Being
born
again
not
of
corruptible
seed,
but incorruptible,
by
the
word
of
God
who liveth
and remaineth
for ever.
\VS{24}For
all
flesh
is
as
grass;
and
all
the
glory thereof
as
the
flower
of
grass.
The
grass
is
withered,
and
the
flower thereof
is fallen
away.
\VS{25}But
the
word
of
the
Lord endureth
for
ever.
And
this
is
the
word
which
by
the
gospel hath
been
preached unto
you.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Wherefore
laying away
all
malice,
and
all guile,
and dissimulations,
and envies,
and
all detractions,
\VS{2}As
newborn babes, desire
the rational
milk without guile,
that thereby
you
may
grow unto
salvation:
\VS{3}If
so
be
you
have
tasted
that
the
Lord
is sweet.
\VS{4}Unto
whom
coming,
as
to
a
living
stone,
rejected
indeed
by
men,
but
chosen
and made honourable
by
God:
\VS{5}Be
you
also
as
living
stones
built
up,
a
spiritual
house,
a
holy
priesthood,
to
offer
up
spiritual
sacrifices,
acceptable
to
God
by
Jesus
Christ.
\VS{6}Wherefore
it
is
said
in
the
scripture:
Behold,
I
lay
in Sion
a chief
corner
stone,
elect,
precious.
And
he
that
shall
believe
in
him,
shall
not
be confounded.
\VS{7}To
you
therefore
that
believe,
he
is honour:
but
to
them
that
believe
not,
the
stone
which
the
builders
rejected,
the
same
is
made
the
head
of
the
corner:
\VS{8}And
a
stone
of
stumbling,
and
a
rock
of scandal,
to
them
who
stumble
at
the
word,
neither
do believe, whereunto
also
they
are
set.
\VS{9}But
you
are
a
chosen generation,
a kingly
priesthood,
a
holy
nation,
a purchased
people:
that
you
may declare
his virtues,
who hath
called
you
out
of
darkness
into
his marvellous
light:
\VS{10}Who
in
time past
were
not
a
people:
but
are
now
the
people
of
God.
Who
had
not obtained
mercy;
but
now
have obtained
mercy.
\VS{11}Dearly
beloved,
I beseech
you
as
strangers
and pilgrims,
to refrain yourselves
from carnal
desires
which
war
against
the
soul,
\VS{12}Having
your conversation
good
among
the
Gentiles:
that whereas
they
speak
against
you
as
evildoers,
they
may,
by
the
good
works,
which
they
shall behold
in
you,
glorify
God
in
the
day
of
visitation.
\VS{13}Be ye
subject
therefore
to
every
human
creature
for God’s
sake:
whether
it
be
to
the
king
as excelling;
\VS{14}Or
to
governors
as
sent
by
him
for
the
punishment
of
evildoers,
and
for
the
praise
of
the good:
\VS{15}For
so
is
the
will
of
God,
that
by
doing well
you
may put
to
silence
the
ignorance
of
foolish
men:
\VS{16}As
free,
and
not
as making
liberty
a cloak
for
malice,
but
as
the
servants
of
God.
\VS{17}Honour
all
men.
Love
the
brotherhood.
Fear
God. Honour
the
king.
\VS{18}Servants,
be
subject
to
your
masters
with
all
fear,
not
only
to
the
good
and
gentle,
but
also
to
the froward.
\VS{19}For
this
is thankworthy,
if
for
conscience towards
God,
a
man
endure
sorrows,
suffering wrongfully.
\VS{20}For
what glory
is
it,
if
committing
sin,
and being buffeted
for
it,
you
endure?
But
if
doing
well
you
suffer
patiently;
this
is thankworthy
before
God.
\VS{21}For unto
this
are
you
called:
because
Christ
also
suffered
for
us,
leaving
you
an
example
that
you
should
follow
his
steps.
\VS{22}Who
did
no
sin,
neither
was guile
found
in
his
mouth.
\VS{23}Who,
when
he
was
reviled,
did
not
revile:
when
he
suffered,
he threatened
not:
but
delivered himself
to
him
that
judged
him unjustly.
\VS{24}Who
his
own self
bore
our
sins
in
his
body
upon
the
tree:
that
we, being dead
to
sins,
should
live
to
justice:
by
whose stripes
you
were
healed.
\VS{25}For
you
were
as
sheep going
astray;
but
you
are
now converted
to
the
shepherd
and bishop
of
your
souls.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
like
manner
also
let
wives
be
subject
to
their
husbands:
that
if
any believe
not
the
word,
they
may
be
won
without
the
word,
by
the
conversation
of
the
wives.
\VS{2}Considering
your
chaste conversation
with
fear.
\VS{3}Whose adorning
let
it
not
be
the outward plaiting
of
the
hair,
or
the
wearing
of
gold,
or
the
putting
on
of apparel:
\VS{4}But
the
hidden
man
of
the
heart
in
the incorruptibility
of
a
quiet
and
a meek
spirit,
which
is rich
in
the
sight
of
God.
\VS{5}For
after
this
manner heretofore
the
holy
women
also,
who trusted
in
God,
adorned
themselves,
being
in
subjection
to
their
own
husbands:
\VS{6}As Sara
obeyed
Abraham,
calling
him
lord:
whose daughters
you
are,
doing
well,
and
not
fearing
any disturbance.
\VS{7}Ye
husbands,
likewise dwelling
with
them
according
to
knowledge, giving honour
to
the female
as
to
the
weaker
vessel,
and
as
to
the co-heirs
of
the
grace
of
life:
that
your
prayers
be
not
hindered.
\VS{8}And
in fine,
be ye
all
of
one mind, having compassion
one
of another, being lovers
of
the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble:
\VS{9}Not rendering
evil
for
evil,
nor railing
for railing,
but contrariwise,
blessing:
for unto
this
are
you
called,
that
you
may
inherit
a
blessing.
\VS{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.
\VS{11}Let
him decline
from
evil,
and
do
good: let
him
seek
after
peace
and
pursue
it:
\VS{12}Because
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
are
upon
the
just,
and
his
ears unto
their
prayers:
but
the countenance
of
the
Lord
upon
them
that
do
evil
things.
\VS{13}And
who
is
he
that can hurt
you,
if
you
be
zealous
of
good?
\VS{14}But
if
also
you
suffer any
thing
for justice’
sake,
blessed
are ye.
And
be
not
afraid
of
their
fear,
and
be
not
troubled.
\VS{15}But
sanctify
the
Lord
Christ
in
your
hearts,
being
ready
always
to satisfy
every
one
that asketh
you
a
reason
of
that
hope
which
is
in
you.
\VS{16}But
with modesty
and
fear,
having
a
good
conscience:
that whereas
they
speak evil
of
you,
they
may
be ashamed
who falsely accuse
your
good conversation
in
Christ.
\VS{17}For it
is
better
doing
well (if such
be
the
will
of
God)
to
suffer,
than
doing ill.
\VS{18}Because
Christ
also
died
once
for
our
sins,
the
just
for
the
unjust:
that
he
might offer
us
to
God,
being
put
to
death
indeed
in
the
flesh,
but enlivened
in
the
spirit,
\VS{19}In
which
also coming
he
preached
to
those
spirits
that
were
in
prison:
\VS{20}Which
had
been
some
time incredulous,
when
they
waited
for
the
patience
of
God
in
the
days
of Noe,
when
the
ark
was
a building: wherein
a
few,
that
is,
eight
souls,
were
saved
by
water.
\VS{21}Whereunto
baptism
being
of
the like form,
now saveth
you
also:
not
the putting away
of
the filth
of
the
flesh,
but
the examination
of
a
good
conscience towards
God
by
the
resurrection
of
Jesus
Christ.
\VS{22}Who
is
on
the
right
hand
of
God, swallowing down death,
that
we
might
be made heirs
of life everlasting:
being
gone
into
heaven,
the
angels
and
powers
and virtues
being made
subject
to
him.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Christ
therefore
having
suffered
in
the
flesh,
be
you
also armed
with
the
same thought:
for
he
that hath
suffered
in
the
flesh, hath
ceased
from
sins:
\VS{2}That
now
he
may
live
the
rest
of
his
time
in
the
flesh,
not
after
the
desires
of
men,
but according
to
the
will
of
God.
\VS{3}For
the
time
past
is
sufficient
to
have fulfilled
the
will
of
the
Gentiles,
for
them
who
have walked
in riotousness,
lusts, excess
of wine, revellings, banquetings,
and
unlawful worshipping
of idols.
\VS{4}Wherein
they think
it
strange,
that
you
run
not
with
them
into
the
same confusion
of riotousness, speaking
evil
of
you.
\VS{5}Who
shall
render
account
to
him,
who
is
ready
to
judge
the
living
and
the
dead.
\VS{6}For,
for
this cause
was
the
gospel
preached
also
to
the
dead:
that
they
might
be
judged
indeed
according
to
men,
in
the
flesh;
but
may
live
according
to
God,
in
the
Spirit.
\VS{7}But
the
end
of
all
is
at
hand.
Be prudent
therefore,
and watch
in
prayers.
\VS{8}But
before
all
things
have
a constant mutual charity
among
yourselves:
for charity covereth
a
multitude
of
sins.
\VS{9}Using hospitality
one towards
another,
without murmuring,
\VS{10}As
every
man hath
received
grace,
ministering
the
same
one
to
another:
as
good
stewards
of
the
manifold
grace
of
God.
\VS{11}If
any
man
speak,
let
him
speak,
as
the
words
of
God.
If
any
man
minister,
let
him
do
it,
as
of
the
power,
which
God administereth:
that
in
all
things
God
may
be honoured
through
Jesus
Christ:
to
whom
is
glory
and empire
for
ever
and
ever.
Amen.
\VS{12}Dearly
beloved, think
not
strange
the
burning heat
which
is
to try
you,
as
if
some new
thing
happened
to
you;
\VS{13}But
if
you partake
of
the
sufferings
of
Christ,
rejoice
that
when
his
glory
shall
be
revealed,
you
may
also
be
glad
with exceeding
joy.
\VS{14}If
you
be
reproached
for
the
name
of
Christ,
you
shall
be
blessed:
for
that
which
is
of
the honour,
glory,
and power
of
God,
and
that
which
is
his
Spirit, resteth
upon
you.
\VS{15}But
let
none
of
you
suffer
as
a
murderer,
or
a
thief,
or
a railer,
or
a coveter
of
other men’s
things.
\VS{16}But
if
as
a
Christian, let
him
not
be
ashamed,
but let
him
glorify
God
in
that
name.
\VS{17}For
the
time
is,
that
judgment
should
begin
at
the
house
of
God.
And
if
first
at us,
what
shall
be
the
end
of
them
that believe
not
the
gospel
of
God?
\VS{18}And
if
the
just
man
shall
scarcely
be
saved,
where
shall
the
ungodly
and
the
sinner
appear?
\VS{19}Wherefore let
them
also
that
suffer
according
to
the
will
of
God,
commend
their
souls
in good deeds
to
the
faithful
Creator.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The ancients
therefore
that
are
among
you,
I beseech,
who
am myself
also
an ancient,
and
a
witness
of
the
sufferings
of
Christ:
as
also
a
partaker
of
that
glory
which
is
to
be
revealed
in time
to
come:
\VS{2}Feed
the
flock
of
God
which
is
among
you, taking care
of it,
not
by constraint,
but
willingly,
according
to
God:
not
for filthy lucre’s sake,
but
voluntarily:
\VS{3}Neither
as lording it over
the clergy,
but
being
made
a
pattern
of
the
flock
from
the heart.
\VS{4}And
when
the prince
of pastors
shall
appear,
you
shall
receive
a never fading
crown
of
glory.
\VS{5}In
like
manner, ye
young
men,
be
subject
to
the ancients.
And
do
you
all insinuate
humility
one
to
another,
for
God resisteth
the proud,
but
to
the
humble
he giveth
grace.
\VS{6}Be
you
humbled
therefore
under
the
mighty
hand
of
God,
that
he
may
exalt
you
in
the
time
of visitation:
\VS{7}Casting
all
your
care
upon
him,
for
he hath
care
of
you.
\VS{8}Be
sober
and
watch: because
your
adversary
the
devil,
as
a
roaring
lion, goeth
about
seeking
whom
he may
devour.
\VS{9}Whom
resist ye,
strong
in
faith:
knowing
that
the
same affliction befalls
your
brethren
who
are
in
the
world.
\VS{10}But
the
God
of
all
grace,
who hath
called
us
into
his
eternal
glory
in
Christ
Jesus,
after
you
have
suffered
a
little,
will
himself
perfect
you,
and
confirm
you,
and
establish
you.
\VS{11}To
him be glory
and empire
for
ever
and
ever.
Amen.
\VS{12}By Sylvanus,
a
faithful
brother unto
you,
as
I
think,
I
have
written
briefly:
beseeching
and
testifying
that
this
is
the
true
grace
of
God, wherein
you
stand.
\VS{13}The church
that
is
in
Babylon, elected
together
with
you, saluteth
you:
and
so doth
my
son
Mark.
\VS{14}Salute
one
another
with
a holy
kiss. Grace
be
to
all
you,
who
are
in
Christ Jesus. Amen.
\par }