1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2 chosen by God according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through Holiness of the Spirit, into obedience and sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ. May divine power for righteousness, holiness, and redemption and peace be multiplied to you.
3 Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who, according to His abundant mercy, has begotten us again into a living divinely inspired expectation by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 into an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that doesn't fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
5 Who are kept by the power of God through supernatural belief and trust into deliverance that is ready to be unveiled in the last time. *
6 Because of this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have sorrow in various testings,
7 so that the testing of your supernatural belief and trust, being much more precious than of gold that is rendered useless, though it is tested with fire, might be found moving into praise and honor and splendor at the unveiling of Jesus Christ, *
8 Whom you love, having not seen, and into Whom, though now you don't see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
9 Receiving the finished work of your supernatural belief and trust, the deliverance of your souls.
10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the divine power for righteousness, holiness, and redemption that would come to you:
11 Searching into what sort or nature of time the Spirit of Christ, Who was in them, made known, predicting the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow,
12 to whom it was unveiled that, not to themselves, but to us they supplied the things that are now reported to you by those who have proclaimed the Good News to you with the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven, which things the angels desire to look into. *
13 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and maintain divinely inspired expectation to the end for the divine power for righteousness, holiness, and redemption that is to be brought to you at the unveiling of Jesus Christ;
14 As obedient children, not molding yourselves according to the former desires for forbidden things in your ignorance:
15 But as He Who has called you is holy, so be holy in your whole manner of life;
16 Because it is written, Be holy; for I am holy. *
17 And if you call on the Father, Who, without respect of persons, judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your dwelling in a strange land here in fear.
18 You know that you were not liberated from sin with corruptible things such as silver and gold, from your vain manner of life received by tradition from your fathers,
19 but with the precious Blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot,
20 Who truly was previously known before the beginning of the world, but was made visible in these last times for you,
21 who, by Him, believe into God Who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him glory so that your supernatural belief and trust and divinely inspired expectation might be into God. *
22 Seeing you have purified your minds in obeying the truth through the Spirit to sincere love of the brothers, see that you love one another with a pure innermost mind fervently,
23 being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Utterance of God, Which lives and abides into the coming Age. *
24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls away:
25 But the utterance of the Lord endures into the coming Age. And this is the utterance which by the Good News is preached into you.