The Daily Audio Bible

1 Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, To the strangers who dwell here and there throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia;

² Elect, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, for sanctification of the Spirit through obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you.

³ Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; Who, according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope - by the resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ -

⁴ to an immortal and undefiled inheritance which does not wither, reserved in Heaven for us

⁵ who are kept for salvation through faith by the power of God - which is prepared to be revealed in the last time

⁶ and in which you rejoice - though now for a season (if need be) you are in heaviness through various trials,

⁷ so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than gold, which perishes though it be tried with fire), might be found to your praise, honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ,

⁸ Whom you have not seen and yet love; in Whom now (though you do not see Him) you still believe and rejoice with unspeakable and glorious joy,

⁹ receiving the purpose of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

¹⁰ Of such salvation the Prophets have inquired and searched, prophesying of the grace that would come to you,

¹¹ searching when or at what time the Spirit of Christ (Who testified before) was in them, declaring the sufferings that would come to Christ and the glory that would follow.

¹² To them it was revealed that: not to themselves, but to us, they should minister the things which are shown to you by those who have preached the Gospel by the Holy Ghost, sent down from Heaven. These things the angels desire to behold.