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📚Peter, an apostle✭ of Jesus Christ, to those residing as foreigners✭ and scattered✭ throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia✭,The Trinity and believers
2 📚who are chosen✭ according to the foreknowledge✭ of God the Father, through sanctification✭ of the Spirit, for obedience✭ and sprinkling✭ by the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.
The hope of believers
3 📚Blessed be the God and Father✭ of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, in accordance with his abundant mercy✭ has given us new birth✭ into a living hope✭ by the resurrection✭ of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 📚for an inheritance✭ incorruptible, and undefiled, and that does not fade✭ away, reserved in heaven for you✭,
It is a hope living in those who are kept safe themselves
5 📚who are kept by the power of God through faith✭ for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time✭. 6 📚In this you greatly rejoice✭. Though now✭ for a while, if need be, you are distressed by various trials. 7 📚✭These have come so that the proving✭ of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found to result in praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. 8 📚Him you have not seen, but love✭. Though now you do not see✭ him, yet believing in him, you rejoice with joy✭ inexpressible✭ and full of glory, 9 📚and receive✭ the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
10 📚Concerning this salvation the prophets✭ who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, made earnest search and enquiry, 11 📚✭trying to find out what the Spirit of Christ who was in them indicated, or what time it would take place, as he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that would follow. 12 📚✭It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but us, in these things which are now made known to you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven. The angels✭ desire to look into these things.
How believers in Christ should live
13 📚✭Therefore gird up your mind for effort✭, be sober✭, and hope to the end for the grace✭ that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ✭.
Being obedient
14 📚As obedient children✭, do not let yourselves be conformed✭ to the cravings✭ you formerly had in your ignorance✭,
Being holy
15 📚✭but just as he who has called you is holy, so you be holy in your whole way of life✭. 16 📚Because it is written,
You be holy, for I am holy.
Having the reverent fear of God
17 📚And if you call on the Father✭, who, without partiality✭, judges according to everyone’s deeds, spend the time of your stay✭ on earth in reverential fear✭.
Recognizing the price of redemption
18 📚For you know that you were not redeemed✭ with corruptible things, such as silver and gold, from your empty way 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 📚✭He was indeed foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for you. 21 📚Through him✭ you believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory✭, so that your faith and hope might be in God.
Possessing love for fellow believers
22 📚✭Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit into a sincere love for the brethren, fervently love one another with a pure heart, 23 📚being born again✭, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever. 24 📚✭For,
All flesh is like grass,
and all the glory of man
as the flower of grass.
The grass withers, and its flower
falls away,
25 📚But the word of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the word, which, by the gospel, was preached to you.