1 Peter1
1Kefa [pebble] [pebble], an apostle of Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah], to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus [the sea], Galatia [land of the Galli, Gauls, A Celt], Cappadocia [province of good horses], Asia [orient], and Bithynia,2Elect according to the foreknowledge of God-The Father the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit [Ruach], unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah]: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.3Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] the God-The Father and Father of our Lord - Kurios [he to whom a person belongs] Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah], which according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah] from the dead,4To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you,5Who are kept by the power of God-The Father through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.6Wherein you2f greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you2f are in heaviness through manifold temptations:7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah]:8Whom having not seen, you2f love; in whom, though now you2f see [him] not, yet believing, you2f rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:9Receiving the end of your faith, [even] the salvation of [your] souls.10Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace [that should come] unto you:11Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit [Ruach] of Moshiach [Messiah] which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Moshiach [Messiah], and the glory that should follow.12Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the Gospel (joyful message) unto you with the Holy Spirit [Ruach HaKodesh] sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.13For what reason gird up the waist of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah];14As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:15But as he which has called you is holy, so be you2f holy in all manner of Conversation (behavior; way of life; community);16Because it is written, Be you2f holy; for I am holy.17And if you2f call on the Father, who without respect of persons according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:18Forasmuch as you2f know that you2f were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain Conversation (behavior; way of life; community) [received] by tradition from your fathers;19But with the precious blood of Moshiach [Messiah], as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:20Who truly was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,21Who by him do believe in God-The Father, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God-The Father.22Seeing you2f have purified your souls in obeying the tthrough the Spirit [Ruach] unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that you2f] love one another with a pure heart fervently:23Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God-The Father, which lives and abides forever.24For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away:25But the word of the Lord - Kurios endures forever. And this is the word which by the Gospel (joyful message) is preached unto you.1For what reason laying aside all malice, and all deceit, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you2f may grow thereby unto salvation:3If so be you2f have tasted that the Lord - Kurios [is] gracious.4To whom coming, [as unto] a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God-The Father, [and] precious,5You2f also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God-The Father by Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah].6For what reason also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Tziyon [a parched place] [Lofty] a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.7Unto you therefore which believe [he is] precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,8And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.9But you2f [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar (particular; special; one’s own) people; that you2f should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:10Which in time past [were] not a people, but [are] now the people of God-The Father: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.11Dearly beloved, I beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;12Having your Conversation (behavior; way of life; community) honest among the Goyim [Gentiles]: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by [your] good works, which they shall behold, glorify God-The Father in the day of visitation.13Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord - Kurios’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;14Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.15For so is the will of God-The Father, that with well doing you2f may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:16As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God-The Father.17Honour all [men]. Love the brotherhood. Fear God-The Father. Honour the king.18Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the evil, wrong [habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition].19For this [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God-The Father endure grief, suffering wrongfully.20For what glory [is it], if, when you2f be buffeted for your faults, you2f shall take it patiently? but if, when you2f do well, and suffer (allow, to let, permit) [for it], you2f take it patiently, this [is] acceptable with God-The Father.21For even hereunto were you2f called: because Moshiach [Messiah] also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you2f should follow his steps:22Who did no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth:23Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that righteously:24Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you2f were healed.25For you2f were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.1Likewise, you2f wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conduct of the wives;2While they behold your pure (clean; not corrupt) Conversation (behavior; way of life; community) [coupled] with fear.3Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of braiding the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;4But [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet Spirit [Ruach], which is in the sight of God-The Father of great price.5For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God-The Father, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:6Even as Sarah [princess] obeyed Avraham [Exalted Father], calling him lord: whose daughters you2f are, as long as you2f do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.7Likewise, you2f husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.8Finally, [be you2f] all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous:9Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that you2f are thereunto called, that you2f should inherit a blessing.10For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no deceit:11Let him avoid (shun; turn aside from) evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and pursue (to follow after) it.12For the eyes of the Lord - Kurios [are] over the righteous, and his ears [are open] unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord - Kurios [is] against them that do evil.13And who [is] he that will harm you, if you2f be followers of that which is good?14But and if you2f suffer (allow, to let, permit) for righteousness’ sake, happy [are you2f]: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;15But sanctify (make holy; set apart for God’s use) the Lord - Kurios God-The Father in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:16Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good Conversation (behavior; way of life; community) in Moshiach [Messiah].17For [it is] better, if the will of God-The Father be so, that you2f suffer (allow, to let, permit) for well doing, than for evil doing.18For Moshiach [Messiah] also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God-The Father, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit [Ruach]:19By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;20Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God-The Father waited in the days of No’ach [rest], while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.21The like figure whereunto [even] baptism does also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God-The Father,) by the resurrection of Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah]:22Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God-The Father; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.1Forasmuch then as Moshiach [Messiah] has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;2That he no longer should live the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God-The Father.3For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Goyim [Gentiles], when we walked in lasciviousness (being lustful, loose or lewd; promoting lustful desires in others), lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings (drinking, gluttony; rich partying), and abominable idolatries:4Wherein they think it strange that you2f run not with [them] to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you]:5Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.6For for this cause was the Gospel (joyful message) preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God-The Father in the Spirit [Ruach].7But the end of all things is at hand: be you2f therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.8And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.9Use hospitality one to another without grudging.10As every man has received the gift, [even so] minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God-The Father.11If any man speak, [let him speak] as the oracles of God-The Father; if any man minister, [let him do it] as of the ability which God-The Father gives: that God-The Father in all things may be glorified through Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah], to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.12Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:13But rejoice, inasmuch as you2f are partakers of Moshiach [Messiah]’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, you2f may be glad also with exceeding joy.14If you2f be reproached for the name of Moshiach [Messiah], happy [are you2f]; for the Spirit [Ruach] of glory and of God-The Father rests upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.15But let none of you suffer (allow, to let, permit) as a murderer, or [as] a thief, or [as] an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.16Yet if [any man suffer (allow, to let, permit)] as a Christian [Messianic - Follower of Messiah], let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God-The Father on this behalf.17For the time [is come] that judgment must begin at the house of God-The Father: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the Gospel (joyful message) of God-The Father?18And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?19For what reason let them that suffer (allow, to let, permit) according to the will of God-The Father commit the keeping of their souls [to him] in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.1The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Moshiach [Messiah], and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:2Feed the flock of God-The Father which is among you, taking the oversight [thereof], not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy profit, but of a ready mind;3Neither as being lords over [God-The Father’s] heritage, but being examples (types) to the flock.4And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, you2f shall receive a crown of glory that fades not away.5Likewise, you2f younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yes, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God-The Father resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God-The Father, that he may exalt you in due time:7Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:9Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.10But the God-The Father of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Moshiach [Messiah] Yeshua [God is Salvation], after that you2f have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle [you].11To him [be] glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.12By Silvanus (Silas) [woody], a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God-The Father wherein you2f stand.13The [church that is] at Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], elected together with [you], salutes you; and [so does] Marcus [a defense] my son.14Greet you2f one another with a kiss of charity. Peace [be] with you all that are in Moshiach [Messiah] Yeshua [God is Salvation]. Amen.
TovRose