1 Peter 1

¹PETER an Apostle of IESVS CHRIST, to the strangers that dwell here and there throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,

²Elect according to the foreknowledge of God ye Father vnto sanctification of ye Spirit, through obedience and sprinkeling of the blood of Iesus Christ: Grace and peace bee multiplied vnto you.

³Blessed bee God, euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, which according to his aboundant mercie hath begotten vs againe vnto a liuely hope by the resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead,

⁴To an inheritance immortall and vndefiled, and that withereth not, reserued in heauen for vs,

⁵Which are kept by the power of God through faith vnto saluation, which is prepared to be shewed in the last time.

⁶Wherein yee reioyce, though nowe for a season (if neede require) yee are in heauinesse, through manifolde tentations,

⁷That the triall of your faith, being much more precious then golde that perisheth (though it be tried with fire) might bee founde vnto your praise, and honour and glorie at the appearing of Iesus Christ:

⁸Whome yee haue not seene, and yet loue him, in whome nowe, though yee see him not, yet doe you beleeue, and reioyce with ioy vnspeakeable and glorious,

⁹Receiuing the ende of your faith, euen the saluation of your soules.

¹⁰Of the which saluation ye Prophets haue inquired and searched, which prophecied of the grace that should come vnto you,

¹¹Searching when or what time the Spirite which testified before of Christ which was in them, shoulde declare the sufferings that should come vnto Christ, and the glorie that shoulde follow.