1 Peter 1
Common English Bible
Greeting
1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To God’s chosen strangers in the world of the diaspora, who live in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.
2 God the Father chose you because of what he knew beforehand. He chose you through the Holy Spirit’s work of making you holy and because of the faithful obedience and sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
May God’s grace and peace be multiplied to you.
Thanksgiving
3 May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ be blessed! On account of his vast mercy, he has given us new birth. You have been born anew into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 4 You have a pure and enduring inheritance that cannot perish—an inheritance that is presently kept safe in heaven for you. 5 Through his faithfulness, you are guarded by God’s power so that you can receive the salvation he is ready to reveal in the last time.
6 You now rejoice in this hope, even if it’s necessary for you to be distressed for a short time by various trials. 7 This is necessary so that your faith may be found genuine. (Your faith is more valuable than gold, which will be destroyed even though it is itself tested by fire.) Your genuine faith will result in praise, glory, and honor for you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Although you’ve never seen him, you love him. Even though you don’t see him now, you trust him and so rejoice with a glorious joy that is too much for words. 9 You are receiving the goal of your faith: your salvation.
10 The prophets, who long ago foretold the grace that you’ve received, searched and explored, inquiring carefully about this salvation. 11 They wondered what the Spirit of Christ within them was saying when he bore witness beforehand about the suffering that would happen to Christ and the glory that would follow. They wondered what sort of person or what sort of time they were speaking about. 12 It was revealed to them that in their search they were not serving themselves but you. These things, which even angels long to examine, have now been proclaimed to you by those who brought you the good news. They did this in the power of the Holy Spirit, who was sent from heaven.
Response of obedience
13 Therefore, once you have your minds ready for action and you are thinking clearly, place your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 14 Don’t be conformed to your former desires, those that shaped you when you were ignorant. But, as obedient children, 15 you must be holy in every aspect of your lives, just as the one who called you is holy. 16 It is written, You will be holy, because I am holy.[a] 17 Since you call upon a Father who judges all people according to their actions without favoritism, you should conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your dwelling in a strange land. 18 Live in this way, knowing that you were not liberated by perishable things like silver or gold from the empty lifestyle you inherited from your ancestors. 19 Instead, you were liberated by the precious blood of Christ, like that of a flawless, spotless lamb. 20 Christ was chosen before the creation of the world, but was only revealed at the end of time. This was done for you, 21 who through Christ are faithful to the God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory. So now, your faith and hope should rest in God.
22 As you set yourselves apart by your obedience to the truth so that you might have genuine affection for your fellow believers, love each other deeply and earnestly. 23 Do this because you have been given new birth—not from the type of seed that decays but from seed that doesn’t. This seed is God’s life-giving and enduring word. 24 Thus,
All human life on the earth is like grass,
and all human glory is like a flower in a field.
The grass dries up and its flower falls off,
25 but the Lord’s word endures forever.[b]
This is the word that was proclaimed to you as good news.
Footnotes
1 Pedro 1
Reina-Valera 1995
Salutación
1 Pedro, apóstol de Jesucristo, a los expatriados de la dispersión en el Ponto, Galacia, Capadocia, Asia y Bitinia, 2 elegidos según el previo conocimiento de Dios Padre en santificación del Espíritu, para obedecer y ser rociados con la sangre de Jesucristo: Gracia y paz os sean multiplicadas.
Una esperanza viva
3 Bendito el Dios y Padre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo, que según su gran misericordia nos hizo renacer para una esperanza viva, por la resurrección de Jesucristo de los muertos, 4 para una herencia incorruptible, incontaminada e inmarchitable, reservada en los cielos para vosotros, 5 que sois guardados por el poder de Dios, mediante la fe, para alcanzar la salvación que está preparada para ser manifestada en el tiempo final.
6 Por lo cual vosotros os alegráis, aunque ahora por un poco de tiempo, si es necesario, tengáis que ser afligidos en diversas pruebas, 7 para que, sometida a prueba vuestra fe, mucho más preciosa que el oro (el cual, aunque perecedero, se prueba con fuego), sea hallada en alabanza, gloria y honra cuando sea manifestado Jesucristo. 8 Vosotros, que lo amáis sin haberlo visto, creyendo en él aunque ahora no lo veáis, os alegráis con gozo inefable y glorioso, 9 obteniendo el fin de vuestra fe, que es la salvación de vuestras almas.
10 Los profetas que profetizaron de la gracia destinada a vosotros inquirieron y diligentemente indagaron acerca de esta salvación, 11 escudriñando qué persona y qué tiempo indicaba el Espíritu de Cristo que estaba en ellos, el cual anunciaba de antemano los sufrimientos de Cristo y las glorias que vendrían tras ellos. 12 A estos se les reveló que no para sí mismos, sino para nosotros, administraban las cosas que ahora os son anunciadas por los que os han predicado el evangelio por el Espíritu Santo enviado del cielo; cosas en las cuales anhelan mirar los ángeles.
Llamamiento a una vida santa
13 Por tanto, ceñid los lomos de vuestro entendimiento, sed sobrios y esperad por completo en la gracia que se os traerá cuando Jesucristo sea manifestado. 14 Como hijos obedientes, no os conforméis a los deseos que antes teníais estando en vuestra ignorancia, 15 sino, así como aquel que os llamó es santo, sed también vosotros santos en toda vuestra manera de vivir, 16 porque escrito está: «Sed santos, porque yo soy santo.»
17 Si invocáis por Padre a aquel que sin acepción de personas juzga según la obra de cada uno, conducíos en temor todo el tiempo de vuestra peregrinación, 18 pues ya sabéis que fuisteis rescatados de vuestra vana manera de vivir (la cual recibisteis de vuestros padres) no con cosas corruptibles, como oro o plata, 19 sino con la sangre preciosa de Cristo, como de un cordero sin mancha y sin contaminación. 20 Él estaba destinado desde antes de la fundación del mundo, pero ha sido manifestado en los últimos tiempos por amor de vosotros. 21 Por medio de él creéis en Dios, quien lo resucitó de los muertos y le ha dado gloria, para que vuestra fe y esperanza sean en Dios.
22 Al obedecer a la verdad, mediante el Espíritu, habéis purificado vuestras almas para el amor fraternal no fingido. Amaos unos a otros entrañablemente, de corazón puro, 23 pues habéis renacido, no de simiente corruptible, sino de incorruptible, por la palabra de Dios que vive y permanece para siempre, 24 porque:
«Toda carne es como hierba
y toda la gloria del hombre como flor de la hierba;
la hierba se seca y la flor se cae,
25 mas la palabra del Señor permanece para siempre.»
Y ésta es la palabra que por el evangelio os ha sido anunciada.
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