Young's Literal Translation
Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 2 Peter 1 2 8
1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1:2 according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!
1:3 Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,
1:4 to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,
1:5 who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,
1:6 in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,
1:7 that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
1:8 whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,
1:9 receiving the end of your faith -- salvation of souls;
1:10 concerning which salvation seek out and search out did prophets who concerning the grace toward you did prophecy,
1:11 searching in regard to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ that was in them was manifesting, testifying beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory after these,
1:12 to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.
1:13 Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
1:14 as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,
1:15 but according as He who did call you [is] holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour,
1:16 because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;`
1:17 and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye,
1:18 having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,
1:19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ`s --
1:20 foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,
1:21 who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.
1:22 Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,
1:23 being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God -- living and remaining -- to the age;
1:24 because all flesh [is] as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,
1:25 and the saying of the Lord doth remain -- to the age; and this is the saying that was proclaimed good news to you.
2:1 Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,
2:2 as new-born babes the word`s pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
2:3 if so be ye did taste that the Lord [is] gracious,
2:4 to whom coming -- a living stone -- by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,
2:5 and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
2:6 Wherefore, also, it is contained in the Writing: `Lo, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on him may not be put to shame;`
2:7 to you, then, who are believing [is] the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner,
2:8 and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence -- who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, -- to which also they were set;
2:9 and ye [are] a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
2:10 who [were] once not a people, and [are] now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.
2:11 Beloved, I call upon [you], as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,
2:12 having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.
2:13 Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,
2:14 whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evil-doers, and a praise of those doing good;
2:15 because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men;
2:16 as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;
2:17 to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.
2:18 The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;
2:19 for this [is] gracious, if because of conscience toward God any one doth endure sorrows, suffering unrighteously;
2:20 for what renown [is it], if sinning and being buffeted, ye do endure [it]? but if, doing good and suffering [for it], ye do endure, this [is] gracious with God,
2:21 for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,
2:22 who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth,
2:23 who being reviled -- was not reviling again, suffering -- was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,
2:24 who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,
2:25 for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.
3:1 In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,
3:2 having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,
3:3 whose adorning -- let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,
3:4 but -- the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,
3:5 for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,
3:6 as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,` of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.
3:7 The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with [them], according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
3:8 And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,
3:9 not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;
3:10 for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips -- not to speak guile;
3:11 let him turn aside from evil, and do good, let him seek peace and pursue it;
3:12 because the eyes of the Lord [are] upon the righteous, and His ears -- to their supplication, and the face of the Lord [is] upon those doing evil;`
3:13 and who [is] he who will be doing you evil, if of Him who is good ye may become imitators?
3:14 but if ye also should suffer because of righteousness, happy [are ye]! and of their fear be not afraid, nor be troubled,
3:15 and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And [be] ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that [is] in you, with meekness and fear;
3:16 having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;
3:17 for [it is] better doing good, if the will of God will it, to suffer, than doing evil;
3:18 because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,
3:19 in which also to the spirits in prison having gone he did preach,
3:20 who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;
3:21 also to which an antitype doth now save us -- baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,
3:22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven -- messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him.
4:1 Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,
4:2 no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;
4:3 for sufficient to us [is] the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,
4:4 in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,
4:5 who shall give an account to Him who is ready to judge living and dead,
4:6 for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.
4:7 And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,
4:8 and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;
4:9 hospitable to one another, without murmuring;
4:10 each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;
4:11 if any one doth speak -- `as oracles of God;` if any one doth minister -- `as of the ability which God doth supply;` that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.
4:12 Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,
4:13 but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice -- exulting;
4:14 if ye be reproached in the name of Christ -- happy [are ye], because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified;
4:15 for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men`s matters;
4:16 and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;
4:17 because it is the time of the beginning of the judgment from the house of God, and if first from us, what the end of those disobedient to the good news of God?
4:18 And if the righteous man is scarcely saved, the ungodly and sinner -- where shall he appear?
4:19 so that also those suffering according to the will of god, as to a stedfast Creator, let them commit their own souls in good doing.
5:1 Elders who [are] among you, I exhort, who [am] a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker,
5:2 feed the flock of God that [is] among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,
5:3 neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,
5:4 and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.
5:5 In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;
5:6 be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,
5:7 all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.
5:8 Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,
5:9 whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.
5:10 And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle [you];
5:11 to Him [is] the glory, and the power -- to the ages and the ages! Amen.
5:12 Through Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, through few [words] I did write, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye have stood.
5:13 Salute you doth the [assembly] in Babylon jointly elected, and Markus my son.
5:14 Salute ye one another in a kiss of love; peace to you all who [are] in Christ Jesus! Amen.
1:1 Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who did obtain a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:
1:2 Grace to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgement of God and of Jesus our Lord!
1:3 As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,
1:4 through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.
1:5 And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,
1:6 and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
1:7 and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;
1:8 for these things being to you and abounding, do make [you] neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1:9 for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;
1:10 wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,
1:11 for so, richly shall be superadded to you the entrance into the age-during reign of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
1:12 Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,
1:13 and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding [you],
1:14 having known that soon is the laying aside of my tabernacle, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ did shew to me,
1:15 and I will be diligent that also at every time ye have, after my outgoing, power to make to yourselves the remembrance of these things.
1:16 For, skilfully devised fables not having followed out, we did make known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but eye-witnesses having become of his majesty --
1:17 for having received from God the Father honour and glory, such a voice being borne to him by the excellent glory: `This is My Son -- the beloved, in whom I was well pleased;`
1:18 and this voice we -- we did hear, out of heaven borne, being with him in the holy mount.
1:19 And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise -- in your hearts;
1:20 this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,
1:21 for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.
2:1 And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,
2:2 and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,
2:3 and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.
2:4 For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast [them] down to Tartarus, did deliver [them] to judgment, having been reserved,
2:5 and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,
2:6 and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah having turned to ashes, with an overthrow did condemn, an example to those about to be impious having set [them];
2:7 and righteous Lot, worn down by the conduct in lasciviousness of the impious, He did rescue,
2:8 for in seeing and hearing, the righteous man, dwelling among them, day by day the righteous soul with unlawful works was harassing.
2:9 The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,
2:10 and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of,
2:11 whereas messengers, in strength and power being greater, do not bear against them before the Lord an evil speaking judgment;
2:12 and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed -- in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil -- in their destruction shall be destroyed,
2:13 about to receive a reward of unrighteousness, pleasures counting the luxury in the day, spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceits, feasting with you,
2:14 having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,
2:15 having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the [son] of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love,
2:16 and had a rebuke of his own iniquity -- a dumb ass, in man`s voice having spoken, did forbid the madness of the prophet.
2:17 These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;
2:18 for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,
2:19 liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,
2:20 for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,
2:21 for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged [it], to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,
2:22 and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,` and, `A sow having bathed herself -- to rolling in mire.`
3:1 This, now, beloved, a second letter to you I write, in both which I stir up your pure mind in reminding [you],
3:2 to be mindful of the sayings said before by the holy prophets, and of the command of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour,
3:3 this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,
3:4 and saying, `Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;`
3:5 for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,
3:6 through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;
3:7 and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.
3:8 And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord [is] as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;
3:9 the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,
3:10 and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
3:11 All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?
3:12 waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt;
3:13 and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;
3:14 wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,
3:15 and the long-suffering of our Lord count ye salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul -- according to the wisdom given to him -- did write to you,
3:16 as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.
3:17 Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness,
3:18 and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him [is] the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.
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