1 Peter
Chapter 1
1:1PETER an Apostle of Jesus Christos, to the strangers that dwell here and there throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,
1:2Elect according to the foreknowledge of Theos the Father to sanctification of the Spirit, through obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christos:Grace and peace be multiplied to you.
1:3Blessed be Theos, even the Father of our Kyrios Jesus Christos, who according to his abundant eleos has begotten us again to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christos from the dead,
1:4To an inheritance immortal and undefiled,and that withers not, reserved in heaven for us,
1:5Which are kept by the power of Theos through faith to salvation, which is prepared to be showed in the last time.
1:6In which you rejoice, though now for a season (if need require) you are in heaviness, through manifold temptations,
1:7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes (though it be tried with fire) might be found to your praise,and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christos:
1:8Whom you have not seen,and yet love him, in whom now, though you see him not, yet do you believe,and rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorious,
1:9Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your psyches.
1:10Of the which salvation the Prophets have inquired and searched, which prophesied of the grace that should come to you,
1:11Searching when or what time the Spirit which testified before of Christos who was in them, should declare the sufferings that should come to Christos,and the glory that should follow.
1:12To whom it was revealed,that not to themselves,but to us they should minister the things, which are now showed to you by them which have proclaimed to you the Gospel by the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven, the which things the Angels desire to behold.
1:13Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind:be sober,and trust perfectly on that grace that is brought to you, in the revelation of Jesus Christos,
1:14As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former lusts of your ignorance:
1:15But as he who has called you, is holy, so be holy in all manner of conduct;
1:16Because it is written, Be holy,for I am holy.
1:17And if you call him Father, who without respect of person judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your dwelling here in fear,
1:18Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conduct, received by the traditions of the fathers,
1:19But with the precious blood of Christos, as of a Lamb undefiled,and without spot.
1:20Who was foreknown before the foundation of the world,but was declared in the last times for your sakes,
1:21Which by his means do believe in Theos that raised him from the dead,and gave him glory,that your faith and hope might be in Theos,
1:22Having purified your psyches in obeying the truth through the spirit, to love brotherly without feigning, love one another with a pure heart fervently,
1:23Being born anew, not of mortal seed,but of immortal, by the word of Theos, who lives and endures forever.
1:24For all flesh is as grass,and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass. The grass withers,and the flower falls away.
1:25But the word of the Kyrios endures forever:and this is the word which is preached among you.
Chapter 2
2:1Therefore, laying aside all maliciousness,and all guile,and dissimulation,and envy,and all evil speaking,
2:2As new born babes desire that sincere milk of the word, that you may grow by it,
2:3Because you have tasted that the Kyrios is bountiful.
2:4To whom coming as to a living stone disallowed of men,but chosen of Theos and precious,
2:5You also as lively stones, be made a spiritual house, a holy Priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to Theos by Jesus Christos.
2:6Therefore also it is contained in the Scripture, Behold, I put in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect and precious: and he that believes in it, shall not be ashamed.
2:7To you therefore who believe, it is precious:but to them who are disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
2:8And a stone to stumble at,and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient, to the which thing they were even ordained.
2:9But you are a chosen generation, a royal Priesthood, a holy nation, a people set at liberty,that you should proclaim the virtues of him that has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,
2:10Which in time past were not a people, yet are now the people of Theos:which in time past were not under mercy,but now have obtained mercy.
2:11Dearly beloved, I urge you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which fight against the psyche,
2:12And have your conduct honest among the Gentiles,that they who speak evil of you as of evildoers, may by your good works which they shall see, glorify Theos in the day of visitation.
2:13Therefore submit yourselves to all manner ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether it be to the King, as to the superior,
2:14Or to governors, as to them that are sent of him,for the punishment of evildoers,and for the praise of them that do well.
2:15For so is the will of Theos,that by well-doing you may put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men,
2:16As free,and not as having the liberty for a cloak of maliciousness,but as the servants of Theos.
2:17Honor all men:love brotherly fellowship:fear Theos:honor the King.
2:18Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and courteous,but also to the harsh.
2:19For this is thank worthy, if a man for conscience toward Theos endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
2:20For what praise is it, if when you be buffeted for your faults, you take it patiently? But and if when you do well, you suffer wrong and take it patiently, this is acceptable to Theos.
2:21For hereunto you are called:for Christos also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps.
2:22Who did no sin,neither was there guile found in his mouth.
2:23Who when he was reviled, reviled not again:when he suffered, he threatened not,but committed it to him that judges righteously.
2:24Who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree,that we being dead to sin, should live in righteousness:by whose stripes you were healed.
2:25For you were as sheep going astray:but are now returned to the shepherd and Bishop of your psyches.
Chapter 3
3:1Likewise let the wives be subject to their husbands,that even they who obey not the word, may without the word be won by the conduct of the wives,
3:2While they behold your pure conduct, which is with fear.
3:3Whose appareling, let it not be that outward, with braided hair,and gold put about, or in putting on of apparel:
3:4But let it be the hid man of the heart, which consists in the incorruption of a meek and quiet spirit, which is before Theos a thing much set by.
3:5For even after this manner in time past did the holy women, who trusted in Theos, adorn themselves,and were subject to their husbands.
3:6As Sara obeyed Abraham,and called him Sir:whose daughters you are, while you do well, not being afraid of any terror.
3:7Likewise you husbands, dwell with them as men of knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, even as they who are heirs together of the grace of life,that your prayers be not interrupted.
3:8Finally, be you all of one mind:one suffer with another:love as brethren:be pitiful:be courteous,
3:9Not rendering evil for evil,neither rebuke for rebuke:but contrarywise bless, knowing that you are thereto called,that you should be heirs of blessing.
3:10For if any man long after life,and to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil,and his lips that they speak no guile.
3:11Let him turn away from evil,and do good:let him seek peace,and follow after it.
3:12For the eyes of the Kyrios are over the righteous,and his ears are open to their supplication:and the face of the Kyrios is against them that do evil.
3:13And who is it that will harm you, if you follow that which is good?
3:14Notwithstanding blessed are you, if you suffer for righteousness sake. Yes, fear not their fear,neither be troubled.
3:15But sanctify the Kyrios Theos in your hearts:and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and reverence,
3:16Having a good conscience,that when they speak evil of you as of evildoers, they may be ashamed, which slander your good conduct in Christos.
3:17For it is better (if the will of Theos be so) that you suffer for well-doing, than for evil-doing.
3:18For Christos also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,that he might bring us to Theos,and was put to death concerning the flesh,but was quickened by the spirit.
3:19By the which he also went,and preached to the spirits that are in prison.
3:20Which were in time passed disobedient, when once the long suffering of Theos abode in the days of Noah, while the Ark was preparing, in which few, that is, eight psyches were saved in the water.
3:21Of which baptism that now is, answering that figure, (which is not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but a confident demanding which a good conscience makes to Theos) saves us also by the resurrection of Jesus Christos,
3:22Which is at the right hand of Theos, gone into heaven, to whom the Angels,and Powers,and might are subject.
Chapter 4
4:1Forasmuch then as Christos has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind, which is,that he who has suffered in the flesh, has ceased from sin,
4:2That he from here forward should live (as much time as remains in the flesh) not after the lusts of men,but after the will of Theos.
4:3For it is sufficient for us that we have spent the time past of the life, after the lust of the Gentiles, walking in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, in gluttony, drinking,and in abominable idolatries.
4:4In which it seems to them strange,that you run not with them to the same excess of riot:therefore speak they evil of you,
4:5Which shall give accounts to him,that is ready to judge living and dead.
4:6For to this purpose was the Gospel preached also to the dead,that they might be condemned, according to men in the flesh,but might live according to Theos in the spirit.
4:7Now the end of all things is at hand. Be you therefore sober,and watching in prayer.
4:8But above all things have fervent love among you:for love shall cover the multitude of sins.
4:9Be you hospitable one to another, without grumbling.
4:10Let every man as he has received the gift, minister the same one to another, as good disposers of the manifold grace of Theos.
4:11If any man speak, let him speak as the words of Theos. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which Theos ministers,that Theos in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christos, to whom is praise and dominion forever,and ever, Amen.
4:12Dearly beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial, which is among you to prove you, as though some strange thing were come to you:
4:13But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christos's sufferings,that when his glory shall appear, you may be glad and rejoice.
4:14If you be railed upon for the Name of Christos, blessed are you:for the spirit of glory,and of Theos rests upon you:which on their part is evil spoken of:but on your part is glorified.
4:15But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or an evildoer, or as a busybody in other mens matters.
4:16But if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed:but let him glorify Theos in this behalf.
4:17For the time is come,that judgment must begin at the house of Theos. If it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them which obey not the Gospel of Theos?
4:18And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
4:19Therefore let them that suffer according to the will of Theos, commit their psyches to him in well-doing, as to a faithful Creator.
Chapter 5
5:1The elders who are among you, I exhort, who am also an elder,and a witness of the sufferings of Christos,and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed,
5:2Feed the flock of Theos, who depends upon you, caring for it not by constraint,but willingly:not for filthy lucre,but of a ready mind:
5:3Not as though you were lords over God's heritage, but that you may be examples to the flock.
5:4And when that chief shepherd shall appear, you shall receive an incorruptible crown of glory.
5:5Likewise you younger, submit yourselves to the elders,and submit yourselves every man, one to another:deck yourselves inwardly in lowliness of mind:for Theos resists the proud,and gives grace to the humble.
5:6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of Theos,that he may exalt you in due time.
5:7Cast all your care on him:for he cares for you.
5:8Be sober,and watch:for your adversary Diabolos as a roaring lion walks about, seeking whom he may devour:
5:9Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.
5:10And the Theos of all grace, which has called us to his eternal glory by Christos Jesus, after that you have suffered a little, make you perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.
5:11To him be glory and dominion forever and ever, Amen.
5:12By Silvanus a faithful brother to you, as I suppose, have I written briefly, exhorting and testifying how that this is the true grace of Theos, in which you stand.
5:13The Church that is at Babylon elect together with you, salutes you,and Marcus my son.
5:14Greet you one another with the kiss of love. Peace be with you all which are in Christos Jesus, Amen.