¹ Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen, the travelers who are from the dispersion from Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,

² according-to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the holiness of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: grace to you° and may peace be multiplied.

³ Gracious$ is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according-to his much mercy has birthed us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

⁴ into an incorruptible, undefiled and unfading inheritance which has been guarded in the heavens $for you°,

⁵ who are guarded through faith in the power of God, into a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

⁶ In which you° are glad now, if it is essential for a few moments you° were made sorrowful in various tests,

⁷ in-order-that the trial of your° faith being much more precious than gold which perishes, even now you are tested through fire, may be found $for praise and honor and to glory in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

⁸ You° love$ whom you° have not seen {Or: known} , now you° believe into whom you° do not see; you° are glad with unspeakable joy and have been glorified in him;

⁹ getting for yourselves the end of your° faith, that is the salvation of your° souls.

¹⁰ Concerning which salvation, the prophets, who prophesied concerning the favor, the one coming to you°, sought out and utterly searched out,

¹¹ searching which time or what sort of time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating, while testifying beforehand of the sufferings $for Christ and the glories following after these things.

¹² To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you°, they were serving the same things which now were reported to you° through the ones who proclaimed the good-news to you° in the Holy Spirit, after he was sent forth from heaven, into which things messengers desire to peer.

¹³ Hence you° girded up the hips of your° mind, while being sober, hope° completely upon the grace being brought to you° at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

¹⁴ like children of obedience not shaping yourselves in your° former lusts in the time of your° ignorance,

¹⁵ but according-to the one who called you°, who is holy, you° yourselves also become° holy in all your° conduct,

¹⁶ because it has been written, ‘Become° holy, because I am holy.’ {Lev 11:44-45, 19:2, 20:7,26}

¹⁷ And if you° call upon the Father, who impartially judges according-to the work of each one, conduct° yourselves in fear during the time of your° foreign residency here,

¹⁸ knowing that you° were redeemed from your° futile conduct handed-down from your° forefathers not with corruptible things like with silver or with gold.

¹⁹ But like that of an unblemished and unstained lamb, you were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ,

²⁰ who indeed, was known beforehand, before the conception of the world, but was manifested in the last times because of you°,

²¹ who believe through him in God, who raised him up from the dead and gave him glory, so-then your° faith and hope might be in God.

²² You° have purified your° souls in the obedience to the truth through the Spirit toward non-pretended brotherly-love, intensely love

²³ you° have been born again, not out-of corruptible seed, but from the incorruptible, through the word of God, which is living and remaining forever.

²⁴ Because, ‘All flesh is like grass and all the glory of man is like the flower of grass. The grass dried up and its flower fell off.

²⁵ But the declaration of the Lord is abiding forever.’ {Isa 40:6-9} And this is the declaration of the good-news which was proclaimed to you°.