1 Peter 1:6

1:6 This brings you great joy, ¹  although you may have to suffer ²  for a short time in various trials.

1 Peter 2:4

A Living Stone, a Chosen People

2:4 So as you come to him, ³  a living stone rejected by men but ⁴  chosen and priceless ⁵  in God’s sight,

1 Peter 2:15

2:15 For God wants you ⁶  to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.

1 Peter 2:25

2:25 For you were going astray like sheep ⁷  but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

1 Peter 5:14

5:14 Greet one another with a loving kiss. ⁸  Peace to all of you who are in Christ. ⁹ 

[1:6]  ¹ tn Grk “in which you exult.”

[1:6]  ² tc ‡ The oldest and best witnesses lack the verb (א* B, along with 1505 pc), but most mss (Ì⁷² א² A C P Ψ 048 33 1739 Ï) have ἐστίν here (estin, “[if] it is [necessary]”). The verb looks to be an explanatory gloss. But if no verb is present, this opens up the time frame in the author’s mind even more, since the conditional particle for both the first class condition and the fourth class condition is εἰ (ei). That may well be what was on the author’s mind, as evidenced by some of his other allusions to suffering in this little letter (3:14, 17). NA²⁷ has the verb in brackets, indicating doubts as to its authenticity.

[2:4]  ³ tn Grk “to whom coming…you are built up…” as a continuation of the reference to the Lord in v. 3.

[2:4]  ⁴ tn Greek emphasizes the contrast between these two phrases more than can be easily expressed in English.

[2:4]  ⁵ tn Grk “chosen, priceless.”

[2:15]  ⁵ tn Grk “because thus it is God’s will.”

[2:25]  ⁷ sn A quotation from Isa 53:6.

[5:14]  ⁹ tn Grk “a kiss of love.”

[5:14]  ¹⁰ tc Most mss (א P 1739^c Ï) have ἀμήν (amen, “amen”) at the end of 1 Peter. Such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27; Gal 6:18; Jude 25). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. Further, the absence of such a conclusion to the epistle in such witnesses as A B Ψ 81 323 945 1241 1739* co seems inexplicable unless the word here is not authentic.