1 Peter 4:4

4:4 So ¹  they are astonished ²  when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you. ³ 

1 Peter 2:6

2:6 For it says ⁴  in scripture, “Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and priceless cornerstone, ⁵  and whoever believes ⁶  in him ⁷  will never ⁸  be put to shame.” ⁹ 

1 Peter 1:24

1:24 For

all flesh ¹⁰  is like grass

and all its glory like the flower of the grass; ¹¹ 

the grass withers and the flower falls off,

1 Peter 2:8

2:8 and a stumbling-stone ¹²  and a rock to trip over. ¹³  They stumble ¹⁴  because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. ¹⁵ 

1 Peter 3:10

3:10 For

the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep ¹⁶  his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.

1 Peter 3:16

3:16 Yet do it with courtesy and respect, ¹⁷  keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you. ¹⁸ 

1 Peter 2:12

2:12 and maintain good conduct ¹⁹  among the non-Christians, ²⁰  so that though ²¹  they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears. ²² 

1 Peter 3:9

3:9 Do not return evil for evil or insult for insult, but instead bless ²³  others ²⁴  because you were called to inherit a blessing.

1 Peter 3:20

3:20 after they were disobedient long ago ²⁵  when God patiently waited ²⁶  in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark ²⁷  a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

1 Peter 4:14

4:14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, ²⁸  who is the Spirit of God, ²⁹  rests ³⁰  on you.

1 Peter 4:11

4:11 Whoever speaks, let it be with ³¹  God’s words. ³²  Whoever serves, do so with the strength ³³  that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong ³⁴  the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

[4:4]  ¹ tn Grk “in/by which,” referring to the change of behavior described in v. 3. The unbelievers are astonished by the readers’ moral transformation. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[4:4]  ² tn Or “are surprised, are taken aback.” The same verb occurs in 4:12.

[4:4]  ³ tn Grk “blaspheming,” giving the result of their astonishment. Here the target of their “blasphemy/vilification” is not God but the Christian.

[2:6]  ⁴ tn Grk “it contains,” “it stands.”

[2:6]  ⁵ tn Grk “chosen, priceless.”

[2:6]  ⁶ tn Grk “the one who believes.”

[2:6]  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.

[2:6]  ⁸ tn The negative (οὐ μή, ou mh) is emphatic: “will certainly not.”

[2:6]  ⁹ sn A quotation from Isa 28:16.

[1:24]  ⁷ sn Here all flesh is a metaphor for humanity – human beings as both frail and temporary.

[1:24]  ⁸ tn Or “a wildflower.”

[2:8]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” The latter phrase uses the term σκάνδαλον (skandalon), denoting an obstacle to faith, something that arouses anger and rejection.

[2:8]  ¹¹ sn A quotation from Isa 8:14.

[2:8]  ¹² tn Grk “who stumble,” referring to “those who do not believe” in vs. 7. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[2:8]  ¹³ tn Grk “to which they were also destined.”

[3:10]  ¹³ tn Grk “stop.”

[3:16]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “but with courtesy and respect,” continuing the command of v. 15. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[3:16]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “when you are spoken against.”

[2:12]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “keeping your conduct good.”

[2:12]  ²⁰ tn Grk “the Gentiles,” used here of those who are not God’s people.

[2:12]  ²¹ tn Grk “in order that in what they malign you.”

[2:12]  ²² tn Or “when he visits.” Grk “in the day of visitation,” denoting a time when God intervenes directly in human affairs, either for blessing (Luke 1:68, 78; 7:16; 19:44) or for judgment (Isa 10:3; Jer 6:15). This phrase may be a quotation from Isa 10:3, in which case judgment is in view here. But blessing seems to be the point, since part of the motive for good behavior is winning the non-Christian over to the faith (as in 3:1; also apparently in 3:15; cf. Matt 5:16).

[3:9]  ²² tn Grk “not returning…but blessing,” continuing the sense of command from the preceding.

[3:9]  ²³ tn The direct object “others” is omitted but implied in Greek, and must be supplied to suit English style.

[3:20]  ²⁵ tn This reflects a Greek participle, literally “having been disobedient formerly,” that refers to the “spirits” in v. 19. Many translations take this as adjectival describing the spirits (“who had once been disobedient”; cf. NASB, NIV, NKJV, NLT, NRSV, TEV), but the grammatical construction strongly favors an adverbial interpretation describing the time of the preaching, as reflected above.

[3:20]  ²⁶ tn Grk “the patience of God waited.”

[3:20]  ²⁷ tn Grk “in which,” referring to the ark; the referent (the ark) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[4:14]  ²⁸ tc Many mss, some of them important and early ([א] A P 33 81 323 945 1241 1739 pm bo), add καὶ δυνάμεως (kai dunamew"; “and of power”) here. The shorter reading is supported by Ì⁷² B K L Ψ 049 pm). Although the evidence is evenly divided, the longer reading looks to be an explanatory or liturgical expansion on the text and for this reason should be considered secondary.

[4:14]  ²⁹ tn Grk “the Spirit of glory and of God.”

[4:14]  ³⁰ sn A quotation taken from Isa 11:2.

[4:11]  ³¹ tn Grk “if anyone speaks – as God’s words.”

[4:11]  ³² tn Or “oracles.”

[4:11]  ³³ tn Grk “if anyone serves – with strength…”

[4:11]  ³⁴ tn Grk “is/are.”