1 Peter 5:14

5:14 Greet one another with a loving kiss. ¹  Peace to all of you who are in Christ. ² 

1 Peter 1:2

1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father by being set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling ³  with Jesus Christ’s blood. May grace and peace be yours in full measure! ⁴ 

[5:14]  ¹ tn Grk “a kiss of love.”

[5:14]  ² 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.

[1:2]  ³ sn For obedience and for sprinkling indicates the purpose of their choice or election by God.

[1:2]  ⁴ tn Grk “be multiplied to you.”