1 Peter 2:2

2:2 And ¹  yearn ²  like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, ³  so that by it you may grow up to ⁴  salvation, ⁵ 

1 Peter 2:11

2:11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

1 Peter 2:25

2:25 For you were going astray like sheep ⁶  but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

1 Peter 4:10

4:10 Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another ⁷  as good stewards of the varied grace of God.

1 Peter 4:12

4:12 Dear friends, do not be astonished ⁸  that a trial by fire is occurring among you, ⁹  as though something strange were happening to you.

1 Peter 4:16

4:16 But if you suffer as a Christian, ¹⁰  do not be ashamed, but glorify ¹¹  God that you bear such a name. ¹² 

1 Peter 5:8

5:8 Be sober and alert. Your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, ¹³  is on the prowl looking for someone ¹⁴  to devour.

[2:2]  ¹ tn Here “And” has been supplied in the translation to show clearly the connection between vv. 1 and 2.

[2:2]  ² tn Grk “getting rid of…yearn for.”

[2:2]  ³ tn The word for spiritual in Greek is λογικός (logikos), which is a play on words with the reference in 1:23-25 to the living and enduring word (λόγος, logos) of God, through which they were born anew. This is a subtle indication that the nourishment for their growth must be the word of God.

[2:2]  ⁴ tn Or “in, in regard to.” But the focus of “salvation” here, as in 1:5, 9, is the future deliverance of these who have been born anew and protected by God’s power.

[2:2]  ⁵ tc The Byzantine text lacks εἰς σωτηρίαν (ei" swthrian, “to salvation”), while the words are found in the earliest and best witnesses (Ì⁷² א A B C K P Ψ 33 81 630 1241 1505 1739 al latt sy co). Not only is the longer reading superior externally, but since the notion of growing up [in]to salvation would have seemed theologically objectionable, it is easy to see why some scribes would omit it.

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

[4:10]  ¹¹ tn Grk “serving it to one another.” The primary verb is a participle but it continues the sense of command from v. 7.

[4:12]  ¹⁶ tn Or “do not be surprised, taken aback.” The same verb occurs in 4:4.

[4:12]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “at the burning among you, occurring to you for testing.”

[4:16]  ²¹ tn The verb is implied by the context but not expressed; Grk “but if as a Christian.”

[4:16]  ²² tn These are third-person imperatives in Greek (“if [one of you suffers] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed…let him glorify”), but have been translated as second-person verbs since this is smoother English idiom.

[4:16]  ²³ tn Grk “in this name.”

[5:8]  ²⁶ sn This phrase may be an allusion to Ps 22:13.

[5:8]  ²⁷ tc A few mss (B Ψ 0206^vid pc) lack the pronoun τινα (tina), while others have it. Those that have it either put the acute accent over the penult, making this an interrogative pronoun (“whom”; L P 322 323 614 630 945 1243 1739 2298 al), or leave off any accent, making this an indefinite pronoun (“someone”; Ï), or are too early to employ accents but nevertheless have the pronoun τινα (Ì⁷² א A). Generally speaking, the shorter and harder reading is to be preferred. In this instance, the omission of the pronoun would obviously be accommodated for by scribes, since both ζητέω (zhtew, “look, seek”) and καταπίνω (katapinw, “devour”) are transitive verbs. However, if the omission were original, one might expect the position of the pronoun to float in the mss – both before and after the infinitive καταπιεῖν (katapiein, “to devour”). Further, other terms might be expected as well, such as ἕνα ἐξ ὑμῶν ({ena ex Jumwn, “one of you”) or τινα ἐξ ὑμῶν (tina ex Jumwn, “a certain one/someone of you”). The uniformity of both the word and its location suggests that the shorter reading (found in but a few Greek mss) in this instance was a scribal mistake. As to whether the pronoun is interrogative or indefinite, since accents were not a part of the earliest mss, such Greek witnesses are of no help to us in this kind of problem. There would be little difference in meaning between the two in this context.