Chapter 1
KĚPHA, an emissary of Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of Yah the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah: Chen to you, and peace, be multiplied.
3 Blessed be the Yah and Father of our Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah, which according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a lively hope by the resurrection of Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven for you,
5 Who are kept by the power of Yah through Emunah to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
7 That the trial of your Emunah, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found to praise and honour and Kavod at the appearing of Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah:
8 Whom having not seen, you Chesed; in whom, though now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of Kavod:
9 Receiving the end of your Emunah, even the salvation of your souls.
10 Of which salvation the Spokesmen of Yah have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the Chen that should come to you:
11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of the Anointed One of Yah which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of the Anointed One of Yah, and the Kavod that should follow.
12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they did minister the things, which are now reported to you by them that have preached the Good News to you with the Set-Apart Spirit sent down from Heaven; which things the Messengers desire to look into.
13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the Chen that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah;
14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
15 But as he which has called you is Set-Apart, so be you Set-Apart in all manner of conversation;
16 Because it is written, Be you Set-Apart; for I am Set-Apart.
17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
18 Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
19 But with the precious blood of the Anointed One of Yah, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
21 Who by him do believe in Yah, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him Kavod; that your Emunah and hope might be in Yah.
22 Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned Chesed of the brethren, see that you Chesed one another with a pure heart fervently:
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of Yah, which lives and abideth for ever.
24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the Kavod of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
25 But the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the Good News is preached to you.
CHAPTER 2
WHEREFORE laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:
3 If so be you have tasted that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is gracious.
4 To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of Yah, and precious,
5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an Set-Apart priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to Yah by Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah.
6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but to them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an Set-Apart nation, a peculiar people; that you should shew forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of Yah: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
12 Having your conversation honest among the Ha-goyim: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, Kavod Yah in the day of visitation.
13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
14 Or to governors, as to them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
15 For so is the will of Yah, that with well doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of Yah.
17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear Yah. Honour the king.
18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward Yah endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
20 For what Kavod is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with Yah.
21 For even hereunto were you called: because the Anointed One of Yah also sufferted for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps:
22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he sufferted, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judges righteously:
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live to righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.
25 For you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
CHAPTER 3
LIKEWISE, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of Yah of great price.
5 For after this manner in the old time the Set-Apart women also, who trusted in Yah, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, as long as you do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
7 Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the Chen of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
8 Finally, be you all of one mind, having compassion one of another, Chesed as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that you are thereunto called, that you should inherit a blessing.
10 For he that will Chesed life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
12 For the eyes of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing are over the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers: but the face of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is against them that do evil.
13 And who is he that will harm you, if you be followers of that which is good?
14 But and if you suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are you: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
15 But sanctify Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Mighty One in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah.
17 For it is better, if the will of Yah be so, that you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
18 For the Anointed One of Yah also has once sufferted for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to Yah, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of Yah waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 The like figure whereunto even immersion doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward Yah,) by the resurrection of Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah:
22 Who is gone into Heaven, and is on the right hand of Yah; Messengers and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
CHAPTER 4
FORASMUCH then as the Anointed One of Yah has sufferted for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has sufferted in the flesh has ceased from sin;
2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of Yah.
3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Ha-goyim, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
4 Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
6 For for this cause was the Good News preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to Yah in the spirit.
7 But the end of all things is at hand: be you therefore sober, and watch to prayer.
8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
10 As every man has received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold Chen of Yah.
11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of Yah; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which Yah gives: that Yah in all things may be Kavod through Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Aměn.
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of the Anointed One of Yah’s sufferings; that, when his Kavod shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy.
14 If you be reproached for the name of the Anointed One of Yah, happy are you; for the spirit of Kavod and of Yah resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is Kavod.
15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.
16 Yet if any man suffer as an Anointed one of Yah, let him not be ashamed; but let him Kavod Yah on this behalf.
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of Yah: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the Good News of Yah?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the unmighty onely and the sinner appear?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of Yah commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as to a emunahful Creator.
CHAPTER 5
THE elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Anointed One of Yah, and also a partaker of the Kavod that shall be revealed:
2 Feed the flock of Yah which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
3 Neither as being lords over Yah’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown of Kavod that fadeth not away.
5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for Yah resisteth the proud, and gives Chen to the humble.
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of Yah, that he may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist stedfast in the Emunah, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
10 But the Mighty One of all Chen, who has called us to his eternal Kavod by The Anointing of the Spirit of Yah that was upon Yahooshua, after that you have sufferted a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
11 To him be Kavod and dominion for ever and ever. Aměn.
12 By Silvanus, a emunahful brother to you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true Chen of Yah wherein you stand.
13 The assembly that is at Babel, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.
14 Greet you one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in The Anointing of the Spirit of Yah that was upon Yahooshua. Aměn.