This blog continues my translation and study of the First Letter of Peter 1 Peter 4: 8 The end of everything is near, so keep sane and sober for prayers. Above all, keep your love for one another well-exercised because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to each other without grudging, and as […]

This blog continues my translation and study of the First Letter of Peter 1 Peter 4: 1 As therefore Messiah has suffered, arm yourselves with the same determination, for those who suffer in their flesh and blood have left sin behind, so as to live the remainder of their flesh and blood span, not by […]

This continues my study and translation of the First Letter of Peter 1Peter 1: 18 For Messiah also suffered for sins once for all, a just man for unjust people, so that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in flesh and blood but made alive in spirit, in which he […]

A note on blog 2230: I perhaps have not made it clear enough, that whatever the value of a woman “obeying” a (possibly abusive) husband in first century Asia Minor – one’s understanding of the text depends on one’s interpretation of the “violent threats” – I do not consider that it has any value today, […]

This blog continues my translation and study of the First Letter of Peter I Peter 3 In a similar way you wives, be obedient to your own husbands, so that if some of them are not persuaded by the Word, they may be won over without a word by the behaviour of their wives, when […]

This blog continues my translation and study of the First Letter of Peter. 1 Peter 2:24 That same One carried our sins in his own body on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might live for justice. By his “gashes you were made whole.” For “you were going astray like sheep,” but […]

This blog continues my translation and study of the First Letter of Peter. 1 Peter 2:18 You house-slaves, be obedient to your masters, with all due fear, not only to those who are good and reasonable but even to those who are unreasonable; for you gain favour, if through mindfulness of God, you patiently bear […]

My dears, I appeal to you as sojourners and resident aliens in this world, to stay clear of flesh and blood cravings which wage war against your soul. Maintain a winsome way of life among the gentiles, so that rather than denouncing you as evildoers, they may give honour to God on the Day of […]

This blog continues my study and translation of the First Letter of Peter 1 Peter 2 from verse 9 But you are a chosen family, a kingdom of priests, a holy nation, a people for God’s possession, so that you may celebrate the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his […]

I continue with my project of translating the First Letter of Peter with a brief commentary 1 PETER chapter 2 With that in mind, get rid of all malice and all cunning, all play-acting and spite, and all bad-mouthing. Like newborn babies crave the unadulterated rational milk, so that you may grow up towards God’s […]