Outline
Greetings (1:1-2)Praise to God for His Grace and Salvation (1:3-12)- Exhortations to Holiness of Life (1:13;5:11)
- The Requirement of Holiness (1:13;2:3)
- The Position of Believers (2:4-12)
Submission to Authority (2:13;3:7)Duties of All (3:8-17)Christ's Example (3:18;4:6)Conduct in View of the End of All Things (4:7-11)Conduct of Those Who Suffer for Christ (4:12-19)Conduct of Elders (5:1-4)Conduct of the Young (5:5-11)
The Purpose of the Letter (5:12)Final Greetings and Benediction (5:13-14)
1 Peter 1 NLT
13 So prepare your minds for action and
exercise self-control. Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will
come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world.
14 So you must live as God’s obedient
children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own
desires. You didn’t know any better then.
15 But now you must be holy in
everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy.
16 For the Scriptures say, “You must be
holy because I am holy.”
17And remember that the heavenly Father to
whom you pray has no favorites. He will judge or reward you according to what
you do. So you must live in reverent fear of him during your time here as
“temporary residents.”
18 For you know that God paid a ransom
to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was
not paid with mere gold or silver, which lose their value.
19 It was the precious blood of Christ,
the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.
20 God chose him as your ransom long
before the world began, but now in these last days he has been revealed for
your sake.
21 Through Christ you have come to trust
in God. And you have placed your faith and hope in God because he raised Christ
from the dead and gave him great glory.
22 You were cleansed from your sins when
you obeyed the truth, so now you must show sincere love to each other as
brothers and sisters. Love each other deeply with all your heart.
23 For you have been born again, but not
to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it
comes from the eternal, living word of God.
24 As the Scriptures say, “People are
like grass; their beauty is like a flower in the field. The grass withers and
the flower fades.
25 But the word of the
Lord remains forever.” And that word is the Good News that was preached to you.
1 Peter 2 NLT
1 So get rid of all evil behavior. Be
done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech.
2 Like newborn babies, you must crave
pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation.
Cry out for this nourishment,
3 now that you have had a taste of the
Lord’s kindness.
4 You are coming to Christ, who is the
living cornerstone of God’s temple. He was rejected by people, but he was
chosen by God for great honor.
5 And you are living stones that God is
building into his spiritual temple. What’s more, you are his holy priests.
Through the mediation of Jesus Christ, you offer spiritual sacrifices that
please God.
6As the Scriptures say, “I am placing a
cornerstone in Jerusalem, chosen for great honor, and anyone who trusts in him
will never be disgraced.”
7 Yes, you who trust him recognize the
honor God has given him. But for those who reject him, “The stone that the
builders rejected has now become the cornerstone.”
8 And, “He is the stone that makes
people stumble, the rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they do
not obey God’s word, and so they meet the fate that was planned for them.
9 But you are not like that, for you
are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own
possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called
you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.
10 “Once you had no identity as a
people; now you are God’s people. Once you received no mercy; now you have
received God’s mercy.”
11 Dear friends, I warn you as
“temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that
wage war against your very souls.
12 Be careful to live properly among
your unbelieving neighbors. Then even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they
will see your honorable behavior, and they will give honor to God when he
judges the world.
