1 Peter 2:3

2:3 if you have experienced ¹  the Lord’s kindness. ² 

1 Peter 5:9

5:9 Resist him, ³  strong in your faith, because you know ⁴  that your brothers and sisters ⁵  throughout the world ⁶  are enduring ⁷  the same kinds of suffering. ⁸ 

1 Peter 2:18

2:18 Slaves, ⁹  be subject ¹⁰  to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are perverse.

1 Peter 2:1

2:1 So get rid of ¹¹  all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

1 Peter 1:6

1:6 This brings you great joy, ¹²  although you may have to suffer ¹³  for a short time in various trials.

1 Peter 4:15

4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or as a troublemaker. ¹⁴ 

1 Peter 5:14

5:14 Greet one another with a loving kiss. ¹⁵  Peace to all of you who are in Christ. ¹⁶ 

1 Peter 2:20

2:20 For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God. ¹⁷ 

1 Peter 5:10

5:10 And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ ¹⁸  will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. ¹⁹ 

[2:3]  ¹ tn Grk “have tasted that the Lord is kind.”

[2:3]  ² sn A quotation from Ps 34:8.

[5:9]  ³ tn Grk “whom,” referring to the devil in v. 8. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[5:9]  ⁴ tn Grk “knowing,” a participle that usually denotes a reason for the related action.

[5:9]  ⁵ tn Grk “your brotherhood.” The Greek term “brotherhood” is used in a broad sense to connote familial relationships within the family of God (cf. BDAG 19 s.v. ἀδελφότης 1). Another alternative translation would be “your fellow believers,” though this would weaken the familial connotations. This same word occurs in 2:17; there it has been translated “family of believers.”

[5:9]  ⁶ tn Grk “your brotherhood in the world,” referring to the Christian community worldwide.

[5:9]  ⁷ tn This verb carries the nuance “to accomplish, complete,” emphasizing their faithful endurance in suffering. The verb is passive in Greek (“suffering is being endured by your brotherhood”), but has been translated as an active to give a smoother English style.

[5:9]  ⁸ tn Grk “the same things of sufferings.”

[2:18]  ⁵ tn The Greek term here is οἰκέτης (oiketh"), often used of a servant in a household (who would have been a slave).

[2:18]  ⁶ tn Grk “being subject,” but continuing the sense of command from vs. 13.

[2:1]  ⁷ tn Or “put away.”

[1:6]  ⁹ tn Grk “in which you exult.”

[1:6]  ¹⁰ 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.

[4:15]  ¹¹ tn The meaning of the Greek word used here is uncertain. It may mean “spy, informer,” “revolutionary,” or “defrauder, embezzler.” But the most likely meaning is “busybody, one who meddles in the affairs of others, troublesome meddler.” The translation given in the text is intended to suggest this general idea.

[5:14]  ¹³ tn Grk “a kiss of love.”

[5:14]  ¹⁴ 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.

[2:20]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “For this [is] favor/grace with God,” used as a metonymy as in vs. 19 of that which pleases him, which he looks on with favor (cf. BDAG 1079 s.v. χάρις 2).

[5:10]  ¹⁷ tc ‡ A few important mss (א B 614 630 1505 pc) lack “Jesus” after “Christ,” while the majority include the name (Ì⁷² A P Ψ 33 1739 Ï latt). However, the inclusion is a natural and predictable expansion on the text. NA²⁷ includes ᾿Ιησοῦ (Ihsou, “Jesus”) in brackets, indicating doubts as to its authenticity. .

[5:10]  ¹⁸ tn The pronoun “you” is not used explicitly but is clearly implied by the Greek.