1:13 Therefore, get your minds ready for action 1 by being fully sober, and set your hope 2 completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 3
1 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.
2 tn Grk “having bound up…, being sober, set your hope…”
3 tn Grk “at the revelation of Jesus Christ” (cf. v. 7).
4 tn Grk “it contains,” “it stands.”
5 tn Grk “chosen, priceless.”
6 tn Grk “the one who believes.”
7 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.
8 tn The negative (οὐ μή, ou mh) is emphatic: “will certainly not.”
9 sn A quotation from Isa 28:16.
7 tc Many
8 tn Grk “the Spirit of glory and of God.”
9 sn A quotation taken from Isa 11:2.