1 Peter 1


1 Peter 1 is the first chapter of the First Epistle of Peter in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The author identifies himself as "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ", and the epistle is traditionally attributed to Peter the Apostle, but there are hypotheses that it is a work of Peter's followers in Rome between the years 70 and 100.

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 25 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:

Verse 1

The specific region named in this verse would cover most of Asia Minor north and west of the Taurus mountains, which was attested in Pliny's letters to Trajan to have a significant number of Christians in towns and countryside of the area.

God's plan of salvation meets believers' every need (1:3–9)

This part contains a form of blessing, which not only praises God, but lays out the main themes of the epistle. Peter follows the pattern of some of Paul's epistles in pouring thanksgiving to God for His blessings, and gives eleven reasons for praising God:
  1. He is the Father of Lord Jesus Christ
  2. He has given new birth
  3. the motive for giving the new birth is his mercy
  4. the result of the mercy is a living hope
  5. the means to this hope is the resurrection of Jesus
  6. the object of this hope is an inheritance
  7. this inheritance cannot be destroyed by hostile elements nor defiled by outside pollution, and cannot fade by wasting from within
  8. this inheritance is kept in heaven for the believers
  9. the believers are shielded for the inheritance by the power of God
  10. the means of the shielding is faith to hold on to the promises of God
  11. the final goal is a salvation to be revealed by God in the last time, when Jesus is revealed.

    How the salvation was made known to the believers (1:10–12)

The salvation is made known by the work of the Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of Christ, who led the prophets to foretell the grace that was to come, even to foresee the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow, but not to find out when and how that would happen.

Redemption into the Christ Group (1:13–21)

The addressees are said to be set apart for God from the surrounding culture, into the holiness.

Verse 16

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Rebirth through the Word (1:22–2:3)

Those undergone rebirth could be described as 'newborn infants', entering the new community of redeemed people of God constituted by the word or the good news of God.

Verses 24–25

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