彼得前書 1
1 耶穌基督的宗徒伯多祿致書給散居在本都、迦拉達、卡帕多細雅、亞細亞和彼提尼雅作旅客的選民：
Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ to the strangers who are dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia,
2 你們被召選，是照天主的預定；受聖神祝聖，是為服事耶穌基督，和分沾他寶血洗淨之恩。願恩寵和平安豐富地賜予你們！
Asia, and Bithynia, chosen according to the fore-knowledge of God, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience, and to the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, ---may grace and peace be multiplied unto you.
3 願我們的主耶穌基督的天主和父受讚美！他因自己的大仁慈，藉耶穌基督由死者中的復活，重生了我們，為獲得那充滿生命的希望，
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath regenerated us to a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 為獲得那為你們已存留在天上的不壞、無瑕、不朽的產業，
to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
5 因為你們原是為天主的能力所保護，為使你們藉著信德，而獲得那已準備好，在最後時期出現的救恩。
who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
6 為此，你們要歡躍，雖然如今你們暫時還該在各種試探中受苦，
In which ye rejoice, tho' now for a little while, if need be, ye are grieved through various trials.
7 這是為使你們的信德，得以精煉，比經過火煉而仍易消失的黃金，更有價值，好在耶穌基督顯現時，堪受稱讚、光榮和尊敬。
That the proof of your faith, which is much more precious than of gold, (that perisheth, though tried by fire) may be found unto praise, and honor, and glory, when Jesus Christ shall be revealed:
8 你們雖然沒有見過他，卻愛慕他；雖然你們如今仍看不見他，還是相信他；並且以不可言傳，和充滿光榮的喜樂而歡躍，
whom having not seen ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing ye rejoice with joy ineffable and full of glory; receiving the end of your faith,
9 因為你們已把握住信仰的效果：靈魂的救恩。
even the salvation of your souls:
10 關於這救恩，那些預言了你們要得恩寵的先知們，也曾經尋求過，考究過，
concerning which salvation the prophets, who prophesied of the grace to be conferred on you, enquired and diligently sought after it:
11 就是考究那在他們內的基督的聖神，預言那要臨於基督的苦難，和以後的光榮時，指的是什麼時期，或怎樣的光景。
searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did declare in testifying beforehand the sufferings that were to come upon Christ, and the glories following them:
12 這一切給他們啟示出來，並不是為他們自己，而是為給你們服務；這一切，如今藉著給你們宣傳福音的人，依賴由天上派遣來的聖神，傳報給你們；對於這一切奧蹟，連眾天使也都切望窺探。
to whom it was revealed, that it was not to themselves, but to us they ministered these things, which are now declared unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you, through the holy Spirit sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
13 為此，你們要束上腰，謹守心神；要清醒，要全心希望在耶穌基督顯現時，給你們帶來的恩寵；
Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober, and stedfastly hope for the grace to be conferred upon you at the appearing of Jesus Christ;
14 要做順命的子女，不要符合你們昔日在無知中生活的慾望，
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance:
15 但要像那召叫你們的聖者一樣，在一切生活上是聖的，
but as He who hath called you is holy, be ye also holy in all your conversation: since it is written,
16 因為經上記載：『你們應是聖的，因為我是聖的。』
Be ye holy, for I am holy.
17 你們既稱呼那不看情面，而只按每人的作為行審判者為父，就該懷著敬畏，度過你們這旅居的時期。
And if ye call upon the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
18 該知道：你們不是用能朽壞的金銀等物，由你們祖傳的虛妄生活中被贖出來的，
knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain conversation learned by tradition from your fathers, not with corruptible things, as silver and gold;
19 而是用寶血，即無玷無瑕的羔羊基督的寶血。
but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
20 他固然是在創世以前就被預定了的，但在最末的時期為了你們纔出現，
who was indeed appointed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times, for your sakes,
21 為使你們因著他，而相信那使他由死者中復活，並賜給他光榮的天主：這樣你們的信德和望德，都同歸於天主。
who through Him trust in God that raised Him from the dead, and gave Him glory, that your faith and hope might be fixed in God.
22 你們既因服從真理，而潔淨了你們的心靈，獲得了真實無偽的弟兄之愛，就該以赤誠的心，熱切相愛，
Having therefore purified your souls by obedience to the truth, through the Spirit, to brotherly love unfeigned, love one another with a pure heart fervently:
being regenerated not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever. (aiōn g165)
24 因為『凡有血肉的都似草，他的一切美麗都似草上的花：草枯萎了，花也就凋謝了；
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass: the grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away;
