1 Peter 1

1Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect sojourners of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.

2According to God the Father's foreknowledge, in the Spirit's sanctification, for obedience and sprinkling of Jesus Christ's blood: grace to you and peace be multiplied.

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

4to an imperishable and spotless and unfading inheritance preserved in heaven for you

5who are guarded by God's power through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last season.

6In which you greatly rejoice, though for a short time now, if necessary, you have been grieved in various trials.

7so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that perishes though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

8You love him whom you have not seen, and believing in him though you do not see him now, you rejoice with inexpressible and glorious joy.

9receiving the fulfillment of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

10The prophets who prophesied about the grace for you inquired about this salvation and searched it out.

11They inquired what person or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating, as it testified beforehand to Christ's sufferings and the glories that would follow them.

12It was revealed to them that they ministered these things not to themselves but to you, which now have been reported to you through those who proclaimed good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things angels desire to peer into.

13Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind, stay sober, and hope completely on the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

14As obedient children, do not conform yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance.

15But as the one who called you is holy, you yourselves be holy also in all your conduct.

16because it has been written that you shall be holy, for I am holy.

17And if you call on the Father, who judges impartially according to each one's work, live out the time of your sojourning in fear.

18knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, silver or gold, from your vain ancestral way of life.

19but with Christ's precious blood, like that of a faultless and spotless lamb.

20Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested at the end of the times for you.

21Those who through him believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

22Having purified your souls in obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another from the heart fervently.

23having been regenerated not from perishable seed but from imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

24Because all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass; the grass dries up, and the flower falls.

25But the Lord's word remains forever. This is the word preached to you.