1:13 Therefore, get your minds ready for action 3 by being fully sober, and set your hope 4 completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 5
1 sn For obedience and for sprinkling indicates the purpose of their choice or election by God.
2 tn Grk “be multiplied to you.”
3 tn Grk “binding up the loins of your mind,” a figure of speech drawn from the Middle Eastern practice of gathering up long robes around the waist to prepare for work or action.
4 tn Grk “having bound up…, being sober, set your hope…”
5 tn Grk “at the revelation of Jesus Christ” (cf. v. 7).