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 IESVS CHRIST, to the strangers that dwell here and there throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,
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！
Elect 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.
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 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,
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 immortall and vndefiled, and that withereth not, reserued in heauen for vs,
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。
Which are kept by the power of God through faith vnto saluation, which is prepared to be shewed 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，
Wherein yee reioyce, though nowe for a season (if neede require) yee are in heauinesse, through manifolde tentations,
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 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:
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，
Whome 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,
9 因為你們已把握住信仰的效果：靈魂的救恩。
Receiuing the ende of your faith, euen the saluation of your soules.
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，
Of the which saluation ye Prophets haue inquired and searched, which prophecied of the grace that should come vnto you,
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 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.
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。
Vnto whome it was reueiled, that not vnto themselues, but vnto vs they shoulde minister the things, which are nowe shewed vnto you by them which haue preached vnto you the Gospell by the holy Ghost sent downe from heauen, the which things the Angels desire to beholde.
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, girde vp the Ioynes of your minde: bee sober, and trust perfectly on that grace that is brought vnto you, in the reuelation of Iesus 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 obedient children, not fashioning your selues vnto the former lustes of 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 hee which hath called you, is holie, so be yee holie in all maner of conuersation;
16 因為經上記載：『你們應是聖的，因為我是聖的。』
Because it is written, Be yee holie, for I am holie.
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 him Father, which without respect of person iudgeth according to euery mans woorke, passe the time of your dwelling here in feare,
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 yee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as siluer and golde, from your vaine conuersation, receiued by the traditions of the fathers,
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 Lambe vndefiled, 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，
Which was ordeined before the foundation of the world, but was declared in the 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。
Which by his meanes doe beleeue in God that raised him from the dead, and gaue him glorie, that your faith and hope might bee 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，
Hauing purified your soules in obeying the trueth through the spirite, to loue brotherly without faining, loue one another with a pure heart feruently,
Being borne anewe, not of mortall seede, but of immortall, by the woorde of God, who liueth and endureth for euer. (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 grasse, and all the glorie of man is as the flower of grasse. The grasse withereth, and the flower falleth away.
