Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options

1 Peter 1:16-18
New English Translation

16 for it is written, “You shall be holy, because I am holy.”[a] 17 And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here[b] in reverence. 18 You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed—not by perishable things like silver or gold,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:16 sn A quotation from Lev 19:2.
  2. 1 Peter 1:17 tn Grk “the time of your sojourn,” picturing the Christian’s life in this world as a temporary stay in a foreign country (cf. 1:1).
Next
James 5
1 Peter 2
Next
dropdown
New English Translation (NET)

NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com All rights reserved.