Book 60 1 Peter
001:001 Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ: To God's own people
scattered over the earth, who are living as foreigners
in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Roman Asia, and Bithynia,
001:002 chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father,
through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, with a view
to their obedience and to their being sprinkled with the blood
of Jesus Christ. May more and more grace and peace be
granted to you.
001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who in His great mercy has begotten us anew to an ever-living
hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
001:004 to an inheritance imperishable, undefiled and unfading,
which has been reserved in Heaven for you,
001:005 whom God in His power is guarding through faith for a salvation
that even now stands ready for unveiling at the End of the Age.
001:006 Rejoice triumphantly in the prospect of this, even if now,
for a short time, you are compelled to sorrow amid various trials.
001:007 The sorrow comes in order that the testing of your faith--
being more precious than that of gold, which perishes and yet
is proved by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory
and honour at the re-appearing of Jesus Christ.
001:008 Him you love, though your eyes have never looked on Him.
In Him, though at present you cannot see Him, you nevertheless
trust, and triumph with a joy which is unspeakable and is
crowned with glory,
001:009 while you are securing as the outcome of your faith the salvation
of your souls.
001:010 There were Prophets who earnestly inquired about that salvation,
and closely searched into it--even those who spoke beforehand