Petros, an apostle of Y'shua the Mashiyach, to the chosen and sojourners who are scattered in Pontus and in Galatia and in Cappadocia and in Asia and in Bithynia,

who were chosen by the foreknowledge of Elohim the Father, in the holiness of the Ruach, to obedience and to the sprinkling of the blood of Y'shua the Mashiyach: grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Blessed is Elohim the Father of our Master Y'shua the Mashiyach, who in his great mercy has begotten us anew by the resurrection of Y'shua the Mashiyach to the hope of life,

and to an inheritance that does not corrupt and is not defiled and does not fade, which is prepared for you in heaven,

while you are kept by the power of Elohim and by faith for the life that is prepared to be revealed in the last time,

in which you will rejoice forever, even if in this little time you are pressed by the various trials that come upon you;

so that the proving of your faith may be seen as more excellent than gold that is tried by fire, to glory and honor and praise at the revealing of Y'shua the Mashiyach

whom you have not seen, and you love him, and in his faith you rejoice with joy that is glorious and cannot be spoken

that you may receive the reward of your faith, the life of your souls

that life namely which the prophets searched into, when they prophesied about the grace that was going to be given to you

and they searched into what time the Ruach of Mashiyach that dwelt in them was showing and testifying, of the sufferings coming to Mashiyach and his glory after them

and it was revealed to them in regard to all they were searching, that not for themselves were they inquiring, but for us they were prophesying the things that are now revealed to you by those who announced good news to you by the Ruach haKodesh sent from heaven, things into which messengers also long to look

Because of this, gird up the loins of your minds, and be fully awake, and hope for the joy that is coming to you at the revelation of our Master Y'shua the Mashiyach.

as obedient children, and do not share again in your former lusts, those you lusted after when without knowledge.

But be holy in all your ways of life, as he is holy who called you.

Because it is written: Be holy, just as I also am holy.

And if you call on the Father, before whom there is no taking of faces, and who judges each one according to his works, walk in fear during this time of your sojourning,

knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable silver or with gold from your empty works that you received from your fathers;

but with the precious blood of the Lamb in whom there is no spot and no blemish, who is the Mashiyach:

who was previously set apart for this from before the foundation of the world, and was revealed in the last of the times for your sakes;

who through him have believed in Elohim, who raised him from the house of the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and your hope would be on Elohim,

when your souls have been made holy by obedience to the truth, and you are full of love without respect of persons, so that you love one another from a pure and perfect heart;

like people born again from the start, not from seed that perishes but from that which does not perish, by the living word of Elohim that stands forever.

Because all flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass dries up and the flower withers;

but the word of our Elohim stands forever: and this is the word that was announced to you.