1 Peter 1:13

1:13 Therefore, get your minds ready for action by being fully sober, and set your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

1 Peter 2:6

2:6 For it says in scripture, “Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and priceless cornerstone, and whoever believes in him will never be put to shame.

1 Peter 4:14

4:14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, 10  who is the Spirit of God, 11  rests 12  on you.

tn Grk “binding up the loins of your mind,” a figure of speech drawn from the Middle Eastern practice of gathering up long robes around the waist to prepare for work or action.

tn Grk “having bound up…, being sober, set your hope…”

tn Grk “at the revelation of Jesus Christ” (cf. v. 7).

tn Grk “it contains,” “it stands.”

tn Grk “chosen, priceless.”

tn Grk “the one who believes.”

tn Grk either “in him” or “in it,” but the OT and NT uses personify the stone as the King, the Messiah whom God will establish in Jerusalem.

tn The negative (οὐ μή, ou mh) is emphatic: “will certainly not.”

sn A quotation from Isa 28:16.

tc Many mss, some of them important and early ([א] A P 33 81 323 945 1241 1739 pm bo), add καὶ δυνάμεως (kai dunamew"; “and of power”) here. The shorter reading is supported by Ì72 B K L Ψ 049 pm). Although the evidence is evenly divided, the longer reading looks to be an explanatory or liturgical expansion on the text and for this reason should be considered secondary.

tn Grk “the Spirit of glory and of God.”

sn A quotation taken from Isa 11:2.