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1 Peter 1 (CKJV)

¹ Kepha, an apostle of יֵשׁוּעַ HaMashiach, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontos, Galatia, Kappadokia, Asia, and Bithunia,

² Elect according to the foreknowledge of Elohim the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the Blood of Yeshua HaMashiach: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

³ Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master Yeshua HaMashiach, which according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Yeshua HaMashiach from the dead,

⁴ To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you,

⁵ Who are kept by the power of Elohim through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

⁶ Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

⁷ That 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 HaMashiach:

⁸ Whom having not seen, you love; in Whom, though now you see Him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

⁹ Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

¹⁰ Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

¹¹ Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of HaMashiach which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Mashiach, and the glory that should follow.

¹² Unto 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 unto you with the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

¹³ Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Yeshua HaMashiach;

¹⁴ As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

¹⁵ But as He which has called you is set-apart [Kadosh - dedicated], so be you kadosh in all manner of conversation;

¹⁶ Because it is written, "Be you set-apart; for I am set-apart." [Leviticus 11:44, 19:2]

¹⁷ And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

¹⁸ Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

¹⁹ But with the precious Blood of Mashiach, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot:

²⁰ Who truly was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

²¹ Who by Him do believe in Elohim, that raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in Elohim.

²² Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the Truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently:

²³ Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of Elohim, which lives and abides for ever.

²⁴ "For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away:

²⁵ But the word of יְהֹוָה endures for ever," [Isaiah 40:6-8] And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached to you.