Discovery Box1 Peter 1:2 
Context1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father by being set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling 1 with Jesus Christ’s blood. May grace and peace be yours in full measure! 2
1 Peter 1:13
Context1:13 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 Peter 2:5
Context2:5 you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer 6 spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 3:21
Context3:21 And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you 7 – not the washing off of physical dirt 8 but the pledge 9 of a good conscience to God – through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
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).
6 tn Grk “unto a holy priesthood to offer.”
7 tn Grk “which also, [as] an antitype, now saves you, [that is] baptism.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
8 tn Grk “the removal of the dirt of the flesh,” where flesh refers to the physical make-up of the body with no moral connotations.
9 tn Or “response”; “answer.”
