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

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Peter,
an
apostle
of
Jesus
Christ,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:1 }
“Christ” means “Anointed One”.}
to
the
chosen ones
who
are living
as
foreigners
in
the
Dispersion
in
Pontus,
Galatia,
Cappadocia,
Asia,
and
Bithynia,
\VS{2}according
to
the
foreknowledge
of
God
the
Father,
in
sanctification
of
the
Spirit,
that
you
may
obey
Jesus
Christ
and
be
sprinkled
with
his
blood:
Grace
to
you
and
peace
be
multiplied.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Blessed
be
the
God
and
Father
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
who
according
to
his
great
mercy caused
us
to
be
born
again
to
a
living
hope
through
the
resurrection
of
Jesus
Christ
from
the
dead,
\VS{4}to
an incorruptible
and
undefiled
inheritance
that doesn’t
fade
away,
reserved
in
Heaven
for
you,
\VS{5}who
by
the
power
of
God
are guarded
through
faith
for
a
salvation
ready
to
be
revealed
in
the
last
time.
\VS{6}In
this
you
greatly
rejoice,
though
now
for
a
little
while,
if need
be,
you
have been
grieved
in
various
trials,
\VS{7}that
the
proof
of
your
faith,
which
is
more
precious
than
gold
that
perishes,
even
though
it
is
tested
by
fire,
may
be
found
to
result
in
praise,
glory,
and honour
at
the
revelation
of
Jesus
Christ—
\VS{8}whom,
not having known,
you
love.
In
him,
though
now
you
don’t
see
him,
yet
believing,
you
rejoice
greatly
with
joy
that
is unspeakable
and
full
of
glory,
\VS{9}receiving
the result
of
your
faith,
the
salvation
of
your
souls.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Concerning
this
salvation,
the
prophets sought
and
searched diligently.
They
prophesied
of
the
grace
that
would come
to
you,
\VS{11}searching
for
who
or
what
kind
of
time
the
Spirit
of
Christ
which
was
in
them pointed
to
when
he
predicted
the
sufferings
of
Christ
and
the
glories
that
would follow
them.
\VS{12}To
them
it
was
revealed
that
they
served
not
themselves,
but
you,
in
these
things,
which
now
have
been
announced
to
you
through
those
who
preached
the
Good
News
to
you
by
the
Holy
Spirit
sent
out
from
heaven;
which
things
angels
desire
to
look
into.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Therefore
prepare
your
minds
for action.\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:13 }
literally, “gird up the waist of your mind” or “put on the belt of the waist of your mind”}
Be
sober,
and
set
your
hope fully
on
the
grace
that
will
be
brought
to
you
at
the
revelation
of
Jesus
Christ—
\VS{14}as
children
of
obedience,
not conforming
yourselves
according
to
your
former
lusts
as
in
your
ignorance,
\VS{15}but
just
as
he
who
called
you
is
holy,
you
yourselves
also
be
holy
in
all
of
your behaviour,
\VS{16}because
it
is
written, “You shall
be
holy,
for
I
am
holy.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 1:16 }
Leviticus 11:44-45}
\par }{\PP \VS{17}If
you
call
on
him
as
Father,
who
without
respect
of persons
judges
according
to
each
man’s
work,
pass
the
time
of
your living
as foreigners
here
in reverent
fear,
\VS{18}knowing
that
you
were
redeemed,
not
with
corruptible
things
like
silver
or
gold,
from
the
useless
way
of
life handed down
from
your fathers,
\VS{19}but
with
precious
blood,
as
of
a
lamb
without
blemish
or spot,
the
blood
of
Christ,
\VS{20}who
was
foreknown
indeed
before
the
foundation
of
the
world,
but
was
revealed
in
this
last
age
for
your
sake,
\VS{21}who
through
him
are
believers
in
God,
who
raised
him
from
the
dead
and
gave
him
glory,
so
that
your
faith
and
hope
might
be
in
God.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}Seeing
you
have
purified
your
souls
in
your
obedience
to
the
truth
through
the
Spirit
in
sincere
brotherly affection,
love
one
another
from
the
heart
fervently,
\VS{23}having
been
born
again,
not
of
corruptible
seed,
but
of incorruptible,
through
the
word
of
God,
which
lives
and
remains forever.
\VS{24}For,
\par }{\Q “All
flesh
is
like
grass,
\par }{\QB and
all
of man’s
glory
like
the
flower
in
the
grass.
\par }{\Q The
grass
withers,
and
its
flower falls;
\par }{\QB \VS{25}but
the
Lord’s
word
endures
forever.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 1:25 }
Isaiah 40:6-8}
\par }{\PP This
is
the
word
of
Good
News
which
was
preached
to
you.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Putting away
therefore
all
wickedness,
all
deceit, hypocrisies, envies,
and
all
evil speaking,
\VS{2}as
newborn
babies,
long
for
the
pure
spiritual
milk,
that
with
it
you
may
grow,
\VS{3}if indeed
you
have
tasted
that
the
Lord
is gracious.
\VS{4}Come
to
him,
a
living
stone,
rejected
indeed
by
men,
but
chosen
by
God,
precious.
\VS{5}You
also
as
living
stones
are
built
up
as
a
spiritual
house,
to
be
a
holy
priesthood,
to
offer
up
spiritual
sacrifices,
acceptable
to
God
through
Jesus
Christ.
\VS{6}Because
it
is
contained
in
Scripture,
\par }{\Q “Behold,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 2:6 }
“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה” or “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.}
I
lay
in
Zion
a chief
cornerstone,
chosen
and
precious.
\par }{\QB He
who
believes
in
him
will
not
be disappointed.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 2:6 }
Isaiah 28:16
}
\par }{\PP \VS{7}For
you
who
believe
therefore
is
the honour,
but
for
those
who
are disobedient,
\par }{\Q “The
stone
which
the
builders
rejected
\par }{\QB has
become
the
chief
cornerstone,”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 2:7 }
Psalm 118:22}
\par }{\PP \VS{8}and,
\par }{\Q “a
stumbling
stone
and
a
rock
of offence.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 2:8 }
Isaiah 8:14}
\par }{\PP For
they
stumble
at
the
word, being
disobedient,
to
which
also
they
were
appointed.
\VS{9}But
you
are
a
chosen
race,
a
royal
priesthood,
a
holy
nation,
a
people
for
God’s
own
possession,
that
you
may
proclaim
the
excellence
of
him
who
called
you
out
of
darkness
into
his marvellous
light.
\VS{10}In
the past,
you
were
not
a
people,
but
now
are
God’s
people,
who
had
not obtained
mercy,
but
now
have obtained
mercy.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Beloved,
I
beg
you
as
foreigners
and pilgrims
to
abstain
from
fleshly
lusts
which
war
against
the
soul,
\VS{12}having
good behaviour amongst
the
nations,
so
in
that
of
which
they
speak
against
you
as
evildoers,
they
may see
your
good
works
and
glorify
God
in
the
day
of
visitation.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Therefore
subject yourselves
to
every ordinance
of
man
for
the
Lord’s
sake:
whether
to
the
king,
as
supreme,
\VS{14}or
to
governors,
as
sent
by
him
for
vengeance
on
evildoers
and
for
praise
to
those
who do
well.
\VS{15}For
this
is
the
will
of
God,
that
by well-doing
you
should put
to
silence
the
ignorance
of
foolish
men.
\VS{16}Live
as
free
people,
yet
not using
your
freedom
for
a cloak
of
wickedness,
but
as bondservants
of
God.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Honour
all
men.
Love
the
brotherhood.
Fear
God. Honour
the
king.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Servants,
be
in
subjection
to
your
masters
with
all
respect,
not
only
to
the
good
and
gentle,
but
also
to
the wicked.
\VS{19}For
it
is commendable
if
someone
endures
pain,
suffering
unjustly,
because
of
conscience towards
God.
\VS{20}For
what glory
is
it
if,
when
you
sin,
you
patiently
endure beating?
But
if
when
you
do
well,
you
patiently
endure
suffering,
this
is commendable
with
God.
\VS{21}For
you
were
called
to
this,
because
Christ
also
suffered
for
us,
leaving
you\FTNT{†}{{\FR 2:21 }
TR reads “us” instead of “you”}
an
example,
that
you
should
follow
his
steps,
\VS{22}who
didn’t
sin, “neither
was
deceit
found
in
his
mouth.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 2:22 }
Isaiah 53:9}
\VS{23}When
he
was cursed,
he
didn’t curse back.
When
he
suffered,
he
didn’t threaten,
but
committed himself
to
him
who
judges
righteously.
\VS{24}He
himself
bore
our
sins
in
his
body
on
the
tree,
that
we, having died
to
sins,
might
live
to
righteousness.
You
were
healed
by
his
wounds.\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 2:24 }
or, stripes}
\VS{25}For
you
were going
astray
like
sheep;
but
now
you
have
returned
to
the
Shepherd
and
Overseer\FTNT{§}{{\FR 2:25 }
“Overseer” is from the Greek ἐπίσκοπον, which can mean overseer, curator, guardian, or superintendent.}
of
your
souls.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
same
way,
wives,
be
in
subjection
to
your
own
husbands,
so
that,
even
if
any don’t
obey
the
Word,
they
may
be
won
by
the behaviour
of
their
wives
without
a
word,
\VS{2}seeing
your
pure behaviour
in
fear.
\VS{3}Let
your
beauty
come
not
from
the outward adorning
of
braiding
your
hair,
and
of
wearing
gold ornaments
or
of
putting
on fine
clothing,
\VS{4}but
from
the
hidden
person
of
the
heart,
in
the incorruptible adornment
of
a
gentle
and
quiet
spirit,
which
is
very
precious
in
God’s
sight.
\VS{5}For
this
is
how
in
the past
the
holy
women
who
hoped
in
God
also
adorned
themselves,
being
in
subjection
to
their
own
husbands.
\VS{6}So
Sarah
obeyed
Abraham,
calling
him
lord,
whose
children
you
now
are
if
you
do
well
and
are
not
put
in
fear
by
any terror.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}You
husbands,
in
the
same
way, live
with
your wives
according
to
knowledge, giving honour
to
the
woman
as
to
the
weaker
vessel,
as
also
being joint
heirs
of
the
grace
of
life,
that
your
prayers
may
not
be
hindered.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Finally,
all
of
you
be like-minded,
compassionate, loving
as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
\VS{9}not rendering
evil
for
evil
or
insult
for
insult;
but
instead
blessing, knowing
that
you
were
called
to
this,
that
you
may
inherit
a
blessing.
\VS{10}For,
\par }{\Q “He
who
would
love
life
\par }{\QB and
see
good
days,
\par }{\Q let
him
keep
his
tongue
from
evil
\par }{\QB and
his
lips
from
speaking
deceit.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}Let
him
turn
away
from
evil
and
do
good.
\par }{\QB Let
him
seek
peace
and
pursue
it.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}For
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
are
on
the
righteous,
\par }{\QB and
his
ears open
to
their
prayer;
\par }{\QB but
the
face
of
the
Lord
is
against
those
who
do
evil.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 3:12 }
Psalm 34:12-16}
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Now
who
will
harm
you
if
you
become imitators
of
that
which
is
good?
\VS{14}But
even
if
you
should
suffer
for righteousness’
sake,
you
are
blessed. “Don’t
fear
what
they
fear,
neither
be
troubled.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 3:14 }
Isaiah 8:12}
\VS{15}But
sanctify
the
Lord
God
in
your
hearts.
Always
be
ready
to give
an
answer
to
everyone
who
asks
you
a
reason
concerning
the
hope
that
is
in
you,
with
humility
and
fear,
\VS{16}having
a
good
conscience.
Thus,
while
you
are spoken
against
as evildoers,
they
may
be disappointed
who curse
your
good
way
of
life
in
Christ.
\VS{17}For it
is
better,
if it
is
God’s
will,
that
you
suffer
for
doing
what
is
right
than
for
doing
evil.
\VS{18}Because
Christ
also
suffered
for
sins
once,
the
righteous
for
the
unrighteous,
that
he
might
bring
you
to
God,
being
put
to
death
in
the
flesh,
but
made
alive
in
the
Spirit,
\VS{19}in
whom
he
also
went
and
preached
to
the
spirits
in
prison,
\VS{20}who
before
were
disobedient
when
God
waited
patiently
in
the
days
of
Noah
while
the ship
was
being
built.
In
it,
few,
that
is,
eight
souls,
were
saved
through
water.
\VS{21}This
is
a symbol
of
baptism,
which
now
saves
you—not
the putting away
of
the filth
of
the
flesh,
but
the answer
of
a
good
conscience towards
God—through
the
resurrection
of
Jesus
Christ,
\VS{22}who
is
at
the
right
hand
of
God, having
gone
into
heaven,
angels
and
authorities
and
powers
being made
subject
to
him.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Therefore,
since
Christ
suffered
for us
in
the
flesh,
arm
yourselves
also
with
the
same
mind;
for
he
who
has
suffered
in
the
flesh
has
ceased
from
sin,
\VS{2}that
you
no
longer
should
live
the
rest
of
your
time
in
the
flesh
for
the
lusts
of
men,
but
for
the
will
of
God.
\VS{3}For
we
have spent
enough
of
our
past
time
doing
the
desire
of
the
Gentiles,
and having walked
in lewdness,
lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings,
and
abominable
idolatries.
\VS{4}They think
it
is
strange
that
you
don’t
run
with
them
into
the
same excess
of riot, speaking
evil
of
you.
\VS{5}They
will
give
account
to
him
who
is
ready
to
judge
the
living
and
the
dead.
\VS{6}For
to
this
end
the
Good
News
was
preached
even
to
the
dead,
that
they
might
be
judged
indeed
as
men
in
the
flesh,
but
live
as
to
God
in
the
spirit.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}But
the
end
of
all
things
is
near.
Therefore
be
of
sound
mind, self-controlled,
and
sober
in
prayer.
\VS{8}And
above
all
things
be earnest
in
your
love amongst
yourselves,
for
love
covers
a
multitude
of
sins.
\VS{9}Be
hospitable
to
one
another
without
grumbling.
\VS{10}As
each
has
received
a
gift,
employ
it
in
serving
one
another,
as
good
managers
of
the
grace
of
God
in
its
various forms.
\VS{11}If
anyone
speaks,
let
it
be
as
it
were
the
very
words
of
God.
If
anyone
serves,
let
it
be
as
of
the
strength
which
God
supplies,
that
in
all
things
God
may
be
glorified
through
Jesus
Christ,
to
whom
belong
the
glory
and
the
dominion
forever
and
ever.
Amen.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Beloved,
don’t
be astonished
at
the
fiery
trial
which
has
come
upon
you
to test
you,
as
though
a
strange
thing
happened
to
you.
\VS{13}But
because
you
are partakers
of
Christ’s
sufferings,
rejoice,
that
at
the
revelation
of
his
glory
you
also
may
rejoice
with exceeding
joy.
\VS{14}If
you
are insulted
for
the
name
of
Christ,
you
are
blessed,
because
the
Spirit
of
glory
and
of
God
rests
on
you.
On
their part
he
is blasphemed,
but
on
your part
he
is glorified.
\VS{15}But
let
none
of
you
suffer
as
a
murderer,
or
a
thief,
or
an evil doer,
or
a
meddler
in
other men’s matters.
\VS{16}But
if
one
of
you suffers
for being
a
Christian, let
him
not
be
ashamed;
but let
him
glorify
God
in
this matter.
\VS{17}For
the
time
has come
for judgement
to
begin
with
the
household
of
God.
If
it
begins
first
with us,
what
will happen
to
those
who don’t
obey
the
Good
News
of
God?
\VS{18}“If
it
is hard
for
the
righteous
to
be
saved,
what
will happen
to
the
ungodly
and
the
sinner?”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 4:18 }
Proverbs 11:31}
\VS{19}Therefore let
them
also
who
suffer
according
to
the
will
of
God
in
doing good
entrust
their
souls
to
him,
as
to
a
faithful
Creator.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Therefore
I
exhort
the
elders amongst
you,
as
a
fellow
elder
and
a
witness
of
the
sufferings
of
Christ,
and
who
will
also
share
in
the
glory
that
will
be
revealed:
\VS{2}shepherd
the
flock
of
God
which
is amongst
you, exercising
the
oversight,
not
under
compulsion,
but
voluntarily;
not
for dishonest
gain,
but
willingly;
\VS{3}not
as lording it over
those entrusted
to
you,
but making
yourselves
examples
to
the
flock.
\VS{4}When
the
chief
Shepherd
is
revealed,
you
will
receive
the
crown
of
glory
that doesn’t fade away.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Likewise,
you
younger
ones,
be
subject
to
the
elder.
Yes,
all
of
you
clothe
yourselves
with
humility
and
subject
yourselves
to
one
another;
for “God resists
the proud,
but
gives
grace
to
the
humble.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 5:5 }
Proverbs 3:34
}
\VS{6}Humble
yourselves
therefore
under
the
mighty
hand
of
God,
that
he
may
exalt
you
in due
time,
\VS{7}casting
all
your
worries
on
him,
because
he
cares
for
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Be
sober
and self-controlled. Be watchful.
Your
adversary,
the
devil,
walks
around
like
a
roaring
lion,
seeking
whom
he may
devour.
\VS{9}Withstand
him steadfast
in
your
faith,
knowing
that
your brothers
who
are
in
the
world
are undergoing
the
same
sufferings.
\VS{10}But
may
the
God
of
all
grace,
who
called
you
to
his
eternal
glory
by
Christ
Jesus,
after
you
have
suffered
a
little
while,
perfect,
establish,
strengthen,
and settle
you.
\VS{11}To
him be
the glory
and
the
power
forever
and
ever.
Amen.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Through
Silvanus,
our
faithful
brother,
as
I
consider
him,
I
have
written
to
you
briefly,
exhorting
and
testifying
that
this
is
the
true
grace
of
God
in
which
you
stand.
\VS{13}She
who
is
in
Babylon,
chosen
together
with
you,
greets
you.
So
does
Mark,
my
son.
\VS{14}Greet
one
another
with
a
kiss
of
love.
\par }{\PP Peace
be
to
all
of
you
who
are
in
Christ Jesus. Amen.
\par }