1:13 Therefore, get your minds ready for action 10 by being fully sober, and set your hope 11 completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 12
1 tn Grk “who is at the right hand…having gone into heaven.”
2 tn Grk “angels…having been subjected to him.”
1 tn No verb is expressed here but the verb “is” or “belongs” is clearly implied. This doxology expresses a fact for which God should be glorified (as in 4:11), rather than a wish or prayer (“may power be to him”).
1 tn Grk “if anyone speaks – as God’s words.”
2 tn Or “oracles.”
3 tn Grk “if anyone serves – with strength…”
4 tn Grk “is/are.”
1 tn Grk “in time,” but connoting “the proper time, when the time is right” as in Matt 24:45; Luke 12:42.
2 tn Grk “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that in due time he may exalt you.” The sentence was rearranged so that the English reader could more clearly see the connection between “casting” (v. 7) and “humble” (v. 6).
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).
1 tn Grk “serving it to one another.” The primary verb is a participle but it continues the sense of command from v. 7.
1 tn Grk “which also, [as] an antitype, now saves you, [that is] baptism.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
2 tn Grk “the removal of the dirt of the flesh,” where flesh refers to the physical make-up of the body with no moral connotations.
3 tn Or “response”; “answer.”
1 tn Grk “to whom [pl.] it was revealed.”