1:13 Therefore, get your minds ready for action 1 by being fully sober, and set your hope 2 completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 3
1:10 Concerning this salvation, 4 the prophets 5 who predicted the grace that would come to you 6 searched and investigated carefully.
1 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.
2 tn Grk “having bound up…, being sober, set your hope…”
3 tn Grk “at the revelation of Jesus Christ” (cf. v. 7).
4 tn Grk “about which salvation.”
5 sn Prophets refers to the OT prophets.
6 tn Grk “who prophesied about the grace that is to/for you.”